August 15, 1923 issue

August 15, 1923 issue

cover art by H.C. Murphy

better image than previously posted

~John Ayotte, “The Devil’s Breath”, ‘Another of those fascinating Hawaiian tales’, 3rd of 10 stories in BM

~ Crowley Conmarr, “Fingers Clawing”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Clinton Foy, “The Fatal Sin”, ‘insane 1st-person narrator’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Gilbert Hammond, “Psycho-Whatchamacallit”, author’s sole story in BM

~ Howard R. Marsh, “The Sign at No. 278”, ‘billed as a ‘ten minute story’, set in Chinatown, San Francisco, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Herman Petersen, “The Black Gauntlet”, ‘advertised as “A Long Novelette of South Seas Adventure”’, 10th of 20 stories in BM

~ William Rollins, Jr., “The House of the Fiend Who Laughs”, ‘Daytime Story’, 4th of 23 stories in BM

~ Charles Somerville, “The Tap on the Door”, 13th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 14th of 49 total articles in BM

~ Willett Stockard, “The One-Man Mob”, 2nd of 5 stories in BM

July 1927 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft

July 1927 issue

cover art by Fred Craft

better image than previously posted

~ Tom Curry, “The Peterman”, 10th of 23 with Macnamara (Mac), NYPD 1st grade dick, ‘peterman’ = high explosives expert’, 15th of 39 stories in BM

~ Carroll John Daly, “The Snarl of the Beast”, 19th of 53 with Race Williams, part 2 of 4 serial, published as a novel in 1927 as The Snarl of the Beast, reprinted in The Snarl of the Beast: The Collected Hard-boiled Stories of Race Williams, v.2 (Altus, 2016), 28th of 71 appearances in BM

~ Westmoreland Gray, “Box V’s Night of Mystery”, ‘Western’, 2nd of 3 stories in BM

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Stud Tactics”, 5th of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 7th of 39 stories in BM

~ F.N. Litten, “The Ninth Life”, ‘gangster story’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Carl L. Martin, “Figgerin’ Roughly”, Deputy Lon Havens, Drew County, Bayou country, 1st of 6 in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “A Man with Sand”, ‘see p. 128 for data on FLN with small photo’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 6 of 67 stories in BM

~ L. King Tichenor, “False Impressions”, ‘Told in prison near execution time’, last of 5 stories in BM

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