August 1, 1923 issue

August 1, 1923 issue

cover art by Jules Erbit?

better image than previously posted

~ John Baer, “A Wholesaler in Crime”, ‘compete mystery novelette’, his last of 24 stories in BM

~ Edwin Baird, “This Way Out”, short-short, 1st of 3 stories in BM

~ Peter Chance, “The Scarlet Scalpel”, only appearance in BM

~ Ray(mond King) Cummings, “T. McGuirk – Detective”, ‘5th of 14 McGuirk stories, billed as “the quaintest character in the Underworld” & honest, more of less’, 5th of 15 stories in BM

~ Arthur Fetter, “The Treachery of Spike McGuire”, ‘A Queer Glimpse of the Underworld’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Henry W. Fisher, “Odd Bits”, ‘short-lived feature; not indexed past this point’

~ Geoffrey Foster, “Bedlam”, ‘short-short’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Kenneth Fuessle, “Superstition”, ‘Adventure in Weird Surroundings’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ K. Godwin, “Conscience”, ‘Billed as BM’s “first one-act play”’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Robert Lee Heiser, “The World’s Greatest Mystery”, ‘true account of the murder of Clare Stone, a child, in Baltimore; would occupy readers for some time; not indexed beyond this point’

~ William Rollins, Jr., “A Song of India”, ‘billed as an ‘Oriental adventure in a small town’, 3rd of 23 stories in BM

~ Charles Somerville, “The Camp Dix Mystery”, 12th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 13th of 49 total articles in BM

~ Merlin Moore Taylor, “One of Five”, part 1 of 2, 2nd of 8 appearances in BM

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February 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

February 1936 issue

cover by Tom Lovell

better image than previously posted

Hugh B. Cave, “Death Holds for Ransom

Dale Clark, “My Friend—The Corpse”

Paul Ernst, “Embrace of the Fire God”

Roger Howard Norton, “The Woman Hell Gave Me”

Wyatt Blassingame, “Slaves of the Tomb Maidens”

Ben Judson, “The Beast in Her Bed!“

Emerson Graves, “Pale Daughters of Death”

The Wanton x 5

1959 Horowitz release in Australia

cover art by Barye Phillips – better image than previously posted

1959 Signet paperback original in the US

International Edition Series #10 December 1961, March 1965

cover design by Grant Roberts

1966 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1968 New English Library/Four Square Books release in the UK

By the author of the story that became It’s a Wonderful Life

Philip Van Doren Stern (September 10, 1900 – July 31, 1984) was an American writer, editor, and Civil War historian whose story “The Greatest Gift“, published in 1943, inspired the classic Christmas film It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).


1951 Farrar hardcover as Love Is the One with Wings

1951 Signet reissue – first paperback release

published in the UK in 1952 as It’s Always Too Late to Mend and in 1955 as Manhunt

1960 Berkley reissue

cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)