Day: November 27, 2023

October – December 1950 issue ~ cover art by Robert Stanley

October – December 1950

cover art by Robert Stanley

first and only issue, all stories reissued from past fiction magazines

March-April 1938 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

March-April 1938

better image than previously posted

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

Cornell Woolrich, “Jane Brown’s Body”

H. Bedford-Jones, “Seven Stars”

Max Brand, “Nine Flights to Waterloo”

Robert Carse, “Without Horns”

Richard Howells Watkins, “Smooth Sailor”

Philip Ketchum, “Guns for Kansas”

Richard Sale,“Duello”

Frank Richardson Pierce, “Mosquito Country”

Stookie Allen: Dollars and Sense

Theodore Roscoe, “Dark Rebellion”

February 1925 issue

February 1925 issue

better image than previously posted

cover art by Francis H. Harbaugh

~ Carroll John Daly, “The Face Behind the Mask”, 6th of 53 with Race Williams, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015) 14th the of 71 appearances in BM

~ James Parker Long, “Twice to Make Sure”, “‘Cautious, conservative business man’ as sleuth”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Harold Freeman Miners, “Topango Takes a Long Shot”, last of 4 ‘Topanga John, ancient desert rat’, last of 5 stories in BM

~ William Rollins, Jr., “Treasures That Dead Men Guard”, part 1 of 3, last of 3 stories with Jack Darrow, 10 of 23 stories in BM

~ Charles Somerville, “The Death Ship”, ‘schooner Mary Beatrice & Chinese, see important headnote (p. 118) and editorial note (p.125) relating to series’, 37th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 38th of 49 total articles in BM

~ J. Paul Suter, “The Loud Voice of Time”, 3rd of 15 stories with The Reverend McGregor Daunt, ‘clergyman by profession and detective by choice’, ‘Daunt & one of his problems’, 6th of 19 appearances in BM

~ Kenneth Duane Whipple, “Tainted”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

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