April 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

April 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Frederick C. Davis, “Heads Will Fall”

Norbert Davis, “Murder in the Red” (Bail-Bond Dodd)

Dale Clark, “Me and My Gun”

William Edward Hayes, “The Size of a Grave”

Leslie T. White, “Ace in the Hole”

Hugh B. Cave, “Loose Loot” (Officer Coffey)

February 1, 1923 issue ~ cover art by A. Rose

February 1, 1923 issue

cover art by A. Rose

~ Eustace Hale Ball, “The Trail of the Scarlet Fox”, part 2 of 6 parts with various subtitles, BM debut, 2nd of 13 appearances in BM

~ Drayton Dunster, “Her Gold and Her Pearls”, 2nd of 9 stories in BM

~ Eliza Mae Harvey, “The Last Snow”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ W.H. Holmes, “Creeping Death”, ‘A Complete Mystery Novelette’, 1st of 3 stories in BM

~ Francis James, “Sinister Images”, Prentice, Harvard-trained criminologist turned policeman (‘the young Central Office Man’) with Police Chief Shannon, 1st of 4 parts, 3rd of 20 appearances in BM

~ A. Kandel, “Eulogy on a Rare Theme”, ‘brief-brief’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Roy L. McCardell, “A Million A Year”, last of 4 parts, 4th of 5 appearances in BM

~ Marr Murray, “Hades and Return”, ‘South Sea story‘, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Charles Somerville, “After Ten Thousand Miles”, 1st of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, ‘(see pp. 38-39 for data on CS); no effort has been made to sustain the supposed veracity of series; see also under Joseph Gallomb, Glenn G. Gravatt, & Robert Lee Heiser’, 1st of 49 total articles in BM

~ Horace Winston Stokes, “The Devil’s Hollow”, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Joe Taylor, “The Fixer”, 4th of 12 tales in ‘My Underworld’ series, billed as fiction, 4th of 13th appearances in BM

~ N.H. Wilson, “The Head of Clampini”, ‘Daytime story’, author’s sole appearance in BM

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March 1942 issue

March 1942 issue

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Day Keene, “The Corpse That Ran Away”

Carl Rathjen, “The Pied Piper of Destruction”

Donald G. Cormack, “There’s More Room in the Coffin!“

Joe Kent, “The Bleeding Sosibi”

Fredric Brown, “Death in the Dark”

Francis K. Allan, “Murder Has a Voice”