Day: October 17, 2024

December 1926 issue

better image than previously posted

cover art by Henry C. Murphy

~ Tom Curry, “The Dick-Killer”, 5^th of 23 with Macnamara (Mac), NYPD 1^st grade dick, ‘on the NY docks’, 9^th of 39 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Dead Men’s Letters”, 12^th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, this one with ‘Lois Lambert, a young and rich flapper’, reprinted in Dead Men’s Letters (1990, Carroll & Graf anthology of Jenkins stories), 20th of 99 stories in BM

~ (Charles John) Cutcliffe Hyne, “The War-Steamer of Donna Clotilde”, 2^nd of 8 yarns with Captain Kettle

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “I.O.U. – One Life”, 3rd of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 3rd of 39 stories in BM

~ Lt. Col. J.H. [John Henry] Patterson, D.S.O., “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo”, 3^rd of 7 serialized parts of this ex-British Army officer’s account of building a railway in Kenya, 1898-1899; book published in 1927

~ Joseph T. Shaw, “Makings”, “Western; Alexis Gregory, nom de querre of Prince Dimitri Gregorejovich Alexandrov’, first fiction by the future editor, 1^st of 7 fiction appearances

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Ten Hours”, 1^st of 7 ‘Chuck Reddington & Jake Bailey; aviation stories’, 8^th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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