Original advertising herald for W.S. Van Dyke’s 1934 film THE THIN MAN, based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel of the same name. The first of many Thin Man movies, this one starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Maureen O’Sullivan. This one’s a pristine example.
Broderick Crawford and Ruth Roman in a publicity still for Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
April 1925 issue
cover art by A.T. Stewart
~ Frank L. Benscoter, “Shola Al”, ‘a detective story’, 3rd of 5 stories in BM
~ C. Chapin, “Room Rent”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Valma Clark, “A Little Matter of Chivalry”, “A Mystery of Real Life”, only appearance in BM
~ Ray(mond King) Cummings, “The System of T. McGuirk”, ‘11th of 14 McGuirk stories, billed as “the quaintest character in the Underworld” & honest, more of less’, 11th of 15 stories in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “Conceited, Maybe”, 7th 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) 15th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Arthur Kearns, “A Born Thief”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Genevieve Neegard, “The Sandalwood Casket”, advertised as ‘a meek man drunk with blood’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ William Rollins, Jr., “Treasures That Dead Men Guard”, part 3 of 3, last of 3 stories with Jack Darrow, 12th of 23 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “The Grey-Green House”, 39th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 40th of 49 total articles in BM
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