June 1920 issue ~ cover art by William Grotz

June 1920 issue – third issue

cover art by William Grotz

~ Hamilton Craigie, “The Dead Ringer”, 2nd of 7 solo stories in BM

~ Eric A. Darling, “That Thing on the Bed”, 1st of 5 stories in BM

~ Schuyler Hamilton, “Run to Earth”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Clinton [aka Charles] Harcourt, “The Chest of Delicious Curves”, 2nd of 6 stories in BM

~ Harry C. Hervey, Jr., “The Black Menace”, 2nd of 8 appearances in BM

~ William H. Kofoed, “The Scarlet Mask”, 1st of 3 stories in BM [under this name?]

~ Maurice Level, “The Confession”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ H.T. MacKender, “The Coward”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “The Final Raid”, 2nd of 29 stories in BM

~ Charles F. Oursler and John I. Pearce, “The Hand of Judas”, authors’ only appearance in BM

~ Edward E. and Dorothy S. Rose, “The Night of November 7th”, authors’ only appearance in BM

~ Valentine Williams, “The Mystery of the Brown Leather Suit-Case”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

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May 1937 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft

May 1927 issue

cover art by Fred Craft

better image than previously posted

~ J. Edgar Ambler, “The Buzzard”, ‘The Buzzard & the Cracker, criminals’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Tom Curry, “The Stick-Up Club”, 8th of 23 with Macnamara (Mac), NYPD 1st grade dick, 13th of 39 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “In Full Account”, 16th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, last of 3 with ‘The Girl with the Mole’, reprinted in Dead Men’s Letters (1990, Carroll & Graf anthology of Jenkins stories), 25th of 99 stories in BM

~ Dashiell Hammett, “$106,000 Blood Money” Continental Op [21st of 25], sequel to “The Big Knock-Over”, in the 2/1927 issue, reprinted with its prequel as Blood Money (Tower, 1943), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), 30th of 51 stories in BM

~ (Charles John) Cutcliffe Hyne, “The Liner and the Iceberg”, 7th of 8 yarns with Captain Kettle

~ Don Livingston, “No Grandstand Play”, Western, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Riblew Reelhew, “Eyes of the Night”, ‘Dandy Dan, nimble & nimble-witted crook’, 2nd of 2 stories under this pseudonym, an anagram of Wilber Wheeler

~ Victor Shaw, “For a Girl Like That”, ‘Western detective’, 1st of 5 stories in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “South of Savannah”, 4th of 7 Chuck Reddington story; airplanes & machineguns’, 12th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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