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May 1936 issue
cover art by John Drew
better image than previously posted
~ W.T. Ballard, “Blackmailers Die Hard”, 14th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 19th of 43 stories in BM
~ John K. Butler, “Dark Return”, ‘Mark Dana, ex-G-man’, 3rd of 11 stories in BM
~ George Harmon Coxe, “Murder Mixup”, 16th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 18th of 31 stories in BM, reprinted in The Hard-Boiled Omnibus (1946)
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Beating the Bulls”, 63th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘The Phantom Crook’, 88th of 99 stories in BM
~ Eric Taylor, “Murder to Music”, ‘Jess Arno, private eye’, 6th of 7 stories in BM
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