December 1925 issue

December 1925 issue

~ Carroll John Daly, “Under Cover”, 1st of 2 parts, Race Williams, 11^th of 53, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015), 19th of 71 appearances in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Triple Cross”, 5th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, 11^th of 99 stories in BM

~ Joseph Gollomb, “Vienna’s Scholarly Detectives”, 5th of 6 articles

~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Gutting of Couffignal”, the Op [18^th of 25], reprinted in The Return of the Continental Op (Dell mapback, 1947), reprinted in The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), 25th of 51 stories in BM

~ Donald MacGregor, “The House of Flashing Lights”, ‘concerning a vaudeville actor’, 7th of 10 stories

~ Benjamin Michalek, “The Invisible Order of the Living Dead”, “advertised as ‘strange and weird story’”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Charles Somerville, “Trapped”, 45^th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 47^th of 49 total articles in BM

~ J. Paul Suter, “The German Field Glass”, 8th of 15 stories with The Reverend McGregor Daunt, ‘clergyman by profession and detective by choice’, 11th of 19 appearances in BM