November 1934 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft

November 1934 issue

cover art by Fred Craft

better image than previously posted

~ W.T. Ballard, “In Dead Man’s Alley”, 10th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 10th of 43 stories in BM

~ Eugene Cunningham, “Room Service”, last of 5 with Cleve Corby, 11th of 14 stories in BM

~ Carroll John Daly, “The Eyes Have It”, ‘last William’s caper [of 53 though Hagemann lists 54] in BM (wherein he had appeared ‘exclusively’), CJD not to pub. in BM until Mar 1938’, reprinted in If Death is Respectable: The Collected Hard-boiled Stories of Race Williams, v.4 (Altus, 2018), 66th of 71 appearances in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Hot Cash”, 59th of 73 Ed Jenkins, as Bob Sabin, 83rd of 99 stories in BM

~ Herbert Koehl, “See See Drops In”, ‘C.C. Cane, private eye, 1st person narrator‘, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Roger Torrey, “Law and Disorder”, 10th of 11 with Dal Prentice, Magna City police dick, ‘one tough guy’, title used again in April 1941 issue, not the same story, 13th of 50 appearances in BM

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Sabotage x 5

March 11, 1939 issue – cover art by Emmett Watson

1940 Dutton hardcover

1944 Penguin reissue

July 1952 Signet reissue, 3rd printing

cover art by Maurice Thomas – better image than previously posted

1957 Signet reissue

cover art by Robert Schulz

better image than previously posted

Arrest the Saint x 4

It was first published in 1939 by Hodder and Stoughton in the United Kingdom and by the Crime Club in the United States.

1941 Sun Dial Press

1951 Perma Books edition

1956 Avon edition

better image than previously posted

The Gallows in My Garden x 3

1952 Rinehart hardcover


1952 Rinehart hardcover, this the later 1953 Dell paperback

cover art by Robert Hilbert

his first published novel

first with series detective Manville “Manny” Moon who operated with one artificial leg

1954 Boardman UK softcover

cover art by Denis McLoughlin