Category: action fiction

June 15, 1923 issue

cover art by H.C. Murphy

~ ‘Peter Collinson’ (Hammett), “The Vicious Circle”, ‘see pp. 126-127 for letter by DH’, 2^nd of 4 stories under this name, 2^nd of 51 total stories in BM

~ Anthony Crittenden, “Spike McCready’s Exit”, only appearance in BM

~ Ray(mond King) Cummings, “T. McGuirk Juggles the Pawn Tickets”, ‘4th of 14 McGuirk stories, billed as “the quaintest character in the Underworld” & honest, more of less’, 4^th of 15 stories in BM

~ Wyona Dashwood, “Out of the Fog”, ‘Human weirdities’, only story in BM

~ Meredith Davis, “Beyond the Chair”, last of 3 stories in BM

~ Drayton Dunster, “Sabotage”, ‘A Cemetery Tale’, 6^th of 9 stories in BM

~ Newton A. Fuessle, “Hoodwinked”, ‘KKK story but not in special issue’, 1^st of 2 stories in BM

~ Peter Grumble, “What Happened at Flanders”, ‘Western yarn’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ W.H. Holmes, “Scrambled Motives”, ‘A Complete Mystery Novelette’, 2^nd of 3 stories in BM

~ Charles Somerville, “The Clue of the Hatband”, 9th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 10^th of 49 total articles in BM

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