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cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “Nagasaki Knives”, 2nd half of Jo Gar story, 7th of 24 stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “The Dark Pack”, ‘Western’, 19th of 39 stories in BM
~ James Howard Leveque, “Nigger Loon”, bayou tale, sole appearance in BM
~ James P. Olsen, “’Shot!’”, 1st of 6 Western stories in BM
~ Lester Reynard, “Ladies Love Diamonds”, ‘San Francisco setting’, last of 5 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Death in a Bowl”, 2nd of 3 serialized parts, ‘Ben Jardinn, Hollywood eye, & murder in Hollywood Bowl’, ‘(originally titled The Maestro Murder)’, published in hardcover in 1931 by Knopf, 42nd of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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cover art by Archie Gunn
~ John Baer, “The Struggle in the Dark”, 5th of 24 stories in BM
~ Walter De Leon, “Marked By the Moon”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Paul Everman, “A Call at Carnagy’s”, ‘short-short’, 3rd of 4 stories in BM
~ Clinton [aka Charles] Harcourt, “The Reflection in the Mirror”, last of 6 stories in BM
~ Julian Kilman, “The Fugitive”, 5th of 6 stories in BM
~ William H. Kofoed, “The Foot on the Skylight”, last of 3 stories in BM [under this name?]
~ Robert K. Lennox, “The Price of Vanity”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Lloyd Lonergan, “The Hunch”, 1st of 8 stories in BM
~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “ The Telegram”, and “Told By a Card”, 2 stories in this issue, 9th and 10th of 29 stories in BM
~ Angus Perkerson, “Ether”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Hubert de Tavanne Roussel, “The Trap”, ‘short-short’, 4th of 7 stories in BM
~ Anthony M. Rud, “The Farson Enigma”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Harold Ward, “Out of the Jaws of Death”, ‘short-short’, 14th of 29 stories under this name in BM [21st of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]
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cover art by John Decker
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~ Raymond J. Brown, “Phantom Bullets”, part 2 of 5, only work in BM
~ Ray Cummings and Gabrielle [2nd wife], “Haunted”, only story by this pair in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “It’s All in the Game”, ‘1st-person narrator, preying on “leading lights of the underworld” e.g., Ed, The Killer’, 3rd of 71 appearances in BM
~ Drayton Dunster, “The Fruit of the Tomb”, ‘A Cemetery Tale’, 5th of 9 stories in BM
~ H.M. Hamilton, “Vanishing Gold”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “The Vengeance of the Dead”, 6th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 6th of 49 total articles in BM
~ Joe Taylor, “The Meanest Thief”, ‘brief-brief’, 7th piece of 13 tales in BM
~ Joe Taylor and G[eorge] W. Sutton, Jr., “Burnt Hands”, part 2 of 2 (subtitled, “A Splinter of Steel”), ‘GWS was then editor of BM’, 2nd of 2 appearances by this team in BM
~ Juliette Van, “At the Dragon’s Dip”, ‘Billed as “A Complete Double-Length Detective Mystery Novelette”’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Harold Ward, “The Turning of the Worm”, last of 29 stories under this name in BM [last of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]
~ J.A. Young, “The Meanest Thief”, ‘brief-brief’, author’s sole appearance in BM