
1960 Newsstand Library paperback original
cover art by Robert Bonfils

1970 Coronet edition
9th Matt Helm thriller
1966 Gold Medal paperback original in the US

July 1926 issue
cover art by Dodge
~ Carroll John Daly, “The False Clara Burkhart”, 14th 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), 22nd of 71 appearances in BM
~ William Colt MacDonald, “Romney Gets the Dope”, Western, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Howard E. Morgan, “The Prisoner at Silver City”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Herman Petersen, “The Knife”, last of 20 stories in BM
~ Harry Emmons Rolfe, “Tin Cans”, ‘short-short’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ George Surrey, “The King of Pearls”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Black Air”, 4th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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cover art by Francis H. Harbaugh
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~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Cat-Woman”, 13th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, reprinted in Dead Men’s Letters (1990, Carroll & Graf anthology of Jenkins stories), reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 22nd of 99 stories in BM
~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Big Knock-Over”, Continental Op [20th of 25], see 5/1927 for sequel, “$106,000 Blood Money”, reprinted with its sequel as Blood Money (Tower, 1943), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), 29th of 51 stories in BM
~ (Charles John) Cutcliffe Hyne, “Fortunes Adrift”, 4th of 8 yarns with Captain Kettle
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “The Stolen Rancho”, ‘border tale’, 5th of 39 stories in BM
~ Lt. Col. J.H. [John Henry] Patterson, D.S.O., “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo”, 5th of 7 serialized parts of this ex-British Army officer’s account of building a railway in Kenya, 1898-1899; book published in 1927
~ J. Paul Suter, “The Tail of the Serpent”, 12th of 15 stories with The Reverend McGregor Daunt, ‘clergyman by profession and detective by choice’, ‘robbery & murder in archeological museum’, 16th of 19 appearances in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “White Murder”, 2nd of 7 Chuck Reddington story; airplanes & machineguns’, 10th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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1941 Holt hardcover – cover art by Charles Lofgren
5th Michael Shayne

1944 Detective Novel Classic digest

1949 Popular Library reissue – cover art by Rudolph Belarski
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1953 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Stanley

1959 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1966 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis