September 1945 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

September 1945 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Dale Clark, “Corpse Can’t Climb Trees” (High Price)

Julius Long, “Corpus Delicti de Luxe” (C.D. Mort)

Richard Howells Watkins, “Murder Can’t Be Drowned” (Tim Collins)

Alan Fancy, “Death Burns the Beans” (Mike Tyre)

Thorne Lee, “Stairway Going Down”

better image than previously posted

January 1926 issue ~ cover art by H.C. Murphy

January 1926 issue

cover art by H.C. Murphy

~ Tom Curry, “The Reformation”, 1st of 23 with Macnamara (Mac), NYPD 1st grade dick, 3rd of 39 stories in BM

~ Carroll John Daly, “Under Cover”, last of 2 parts, Race Williams 12th of 53, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015), 20th of 71 appearances in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “According to Law”, 6th of 73 with Ed Jenkins, reissued in According to the Law: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Ed Jenkins, vol. 1 (Steeger, 2026), 12th of 101 stories in BM

~ Erle Dana Gibson, “The Ardwicke Mystery”, part 1 of 2, only appearance in BM

~ Joseph Gollomb, “Thomas Furlong and the Torn Check”, last of 6 articles

~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Nails in Mr. Cayterer”, “‘Robin Thin; billed as ‘A new kind of detective at work’”, 26th of 51 stories in BM

~ Cecil F. Hilleary, “Suspended Justice”, ‘Padlock Holmes solves a mystery’, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Francis James, “Yellow Roses”, Prentice, Harvard-trained criminologist turned policeman, 19th of 20 appearances in BM

~ Charles Somerville, “The Murray Hill Mysteries”, 46th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 48th of 49 total articles in BM

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