
better image than previously posted


both better images than previously posted
cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Triple Treachery”, 30th of 73 stories with Ed Jenkins, with his wife Helen Chadwick, in LA, 2nd half of story with Ramsey, from previous issue, 47th of 99 stories in BM
~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Maltese Falcon”, part 4 of 5 serialized parts before hardcover publication (1931), reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 38th of 45 stories in BM
~ Horace McCoy, “Renegades of the Rio”, 3rd of 14 stories with ‘Capt. Jerry Frost, Texas (Air) Ranger’, 4th of 17 stories in BM
~ Lester Reynard, “Saving the Double-Cross”, 4th of 5 stories in BM
~ Earl and Marion Scott, “Craleigh Comes to Life”, 2nd of 6 stories with ‘Phil Craleigh, once brilliant lawyer, now a drunk, given to bouts of reform’, 10th of 17 stories in BM as a couple
~ L.R. Sherman, “Reading Sign on the Sagebrush Kid”, Western, last of 3 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Outside”, ‘Mal Ourney; part 1 (of 5), ‘The Crime Breeders’, presented as separate stories rather than conventional serial’, pub. in hardcover in 1930 by Knopf as Green Ice, 35th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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cover art by Emery Clarke
Kenneth Robeson, “The King of Terror”
better image than previously posted
as violent, bloody, sexist, sadomasochistic, racist, and lurid as the pulp covers were, this one has to be perhaps the most grisly of all…

pseudonym of Herman Cyril McNeile
1922 UK hardcover from Hodder & Stoughton, published the same year in the US by Doran
2nd book with Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond