November 1921 issue

November 1921 issue

~ John Baer, “The Silver Lining”, 11th of 24 stories in BM

~ Walter Deffenbaugh, “The Talking Wind”, 6th of 14 stories in BM

~ Elizabeth (Bessie) Dudley, “The Blonde Shadow”, 2nd of 4 stories in BM

~ Grover Fayerweather, “When Two Plus Two Equals Five”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Victor Lauriston, “The Dead Man’s Letters”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ H.W. Starr, “The Sheriff Takes the Stand”, 1st of 3 stories by the same author under 3 different names (with Ward and Sterling) in this issue

~ Ward Sterling, “The Whip of Death”, 2nd of 3 stories in this issue (see Ward), 9th of 16 stories under this name in BM

~ Frederic J. Thorne, “The Death Warrant”, part 2 of 2, ‘A Mystery Novel’, 5th of 10 stories

~ Frederic J. Thorne, “The Man Who Died Twice”, ‘narrated by defendant to jury; murder of twins in Seattle & Hong Kong’, 2nd of 2 stories in this issue, 6th of 10 stories in BM

~ Harold Ward, “The Hand of Destiny”, ‘Secret Service op, 1st person narrator’, 3rd story in this issue, 18th of 29 stories under this name in BM [26th, 27th and 28th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]

~ J.R. Ward, “The Bamboozler”, ‘N.B. It is possible that JRW is also a pseudonym of Harold Ward’, 1st of 2 stories in this issue, 1st of three under this name in BM

~ J.R. Ward, “The Emperor of Blunderland”, 2nd of 2 stories in this issue, last of three under this name in BM

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October 1936 issue ~ cover art by John Drew

October 1936 issue

cover art by John Drew

better image than previously posted

~ Russell Bender, “Heat Target”, ‘mayor of a small Maryland town’, 1st of 3 stories in BM

~ John K. Butler, “No Rest for Soldiers”, ‘WWI vets, bonuses & Russ McGregor’, 5th of 11 stories in BM

~ Lester Dent, “Sail”, 1st Oscar Sale story, set in Miami, 1st of 2 stories in BM, reprinted The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977), earlier version of this story reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010) as “Luck”. “Sail” and “Luck” reprinted in Luck: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Oscar Sail (Steeger Books, 2021).

~ Roger Torrey, “Jail Bait”, ‘1st (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 21st of 50 appearances in BM

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