November 15, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Newton Howitt

November 15, 1934 issue

cover art by John Newton Howitt

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T.T. Flynn, “The Evil Brand” (Val Easton)

Eric Taylor, “Scarlet Wake” (Jim Kern)

Frederick Nebel, “Pardon My Murder” (Cardigan)

Max Brand, “The Unnumbered Door” (Dave Clovelly)

Cornell Woolrich, “Preview of Death” [revised into “Murder Before the Camera”] (Det. Galbraith)

Sam Powell, “Blood Storm”

October 1920 issue ~ cover art by William Grotz

October 1920 issue

cover art by William Grotz

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~ Christopher B. Booth, “The Curse of Chester Whitaker”, 2nd of 5 BM stories

~ Hamilton Craigie, “Above Suspicion”, 3rd of 7 solo stories in BM

~ Eric A. Darling, “The Man in the Astrakhan Coat”, Parisian amateur sleuth Dale Owen, 3rd of 5 stories in BM

~ Thomas A. Hanley, “The Mysterious Terror”, ‘horror tale, featuring a beast, The Unnamable’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ J.B. Hawley, “The Man O’Leary Couldn’t Catch”, ‘NYPD Lt. O’Leary & jewel thief’, 2nd of 12 stories in BM

~ Albert MacCray, “In the Shadows of the Jungle”, ‘set in Borneo; Chinese, et al.’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Charles McDonnel, “The Crimson Scars”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Roylston Markham, “The Scar of the Gibbering Imp”, ‘short-short‘, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “The Safe in the Library”, ‘crookdom, complete with criminal argot’, 5th of 29 stories in BM

~ Lewis H. Moulton, “The Voice of the Dead Man”, ‘short-short’, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Anthony M. Rud, “The Silver Screw”, ‘”Complete Mystery Novelette”; set in Ivory Coast (Africa)’, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Harold Ward, “The Man Who Returned”, 7th of 29 stories under this name in BM [11th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]

~ Samuel Wilcox, “The Witness”, ‘short-short’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Arthur Seymour Witt, “The Crawling Crime”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

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April 1938 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

April 1938 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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T.T. Flynn, “The Nightingale Sings Death” (Bill Jennings)

Frederick C. Davis, “Maestro of Murder” (Keyhole Kerry)

John Lawrence, “Body About Town” (Marquis of Broadway)

O.B. Myers, “Second-Hand Coffin” (Chief Carmody)

Cyril Plunkett, “Half a Crime”

January 1945 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

January 1945 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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~ D.L. Champion, “A Corpse Means Cash”, 16th of 26 stories Rex Sackler, 18th of 30 stories in BM

~ Dale Clark, “That’s Murder for You”, 19th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 22nd of 32 stories in BM

~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Good Hunting”, last of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps19th of 20 stories in BM

~ Julius Long, “Leave Your Killing Card”, 3rd of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 8th of 23 stories in BM

~ Robert Reeves, “Blood, Sweat and Biers”, 9th Cellini Smith, ‘Smith & a boxing-fix’, reprinted in Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith (Steeger, 2020), 11th of 12 appearances in BM

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