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1995 New Line Cinema: David Fincher, director, Andrew Kevin Walker, writer

September 27, 2013

January 1940 issue ~ cover art by Edgar A. Whitney

January 1940 issue

cover art by Edgar A. Whitney

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~Robert Arthur, “Too Much Static”, ‘patrol cop’, 1^st of 2 appearances in BM but only original story to appear

~Maurice Beam, “Ham Strung”, small-town hardware store owner, 1^st-person narrator (thought to be possibly a pseud. of Robert Leslie Bellem), 4^th of 7 under this name in BM

~ Wyatt Blassingame, “Some Call It Murder”, 1^st with Bishop, pegged-legged political writer for a Southern newspaper, 1^st of 6 in series, 2^nd of 8 stories in BM

~ Peter Paige, “Voodoo Frame”, ‘Cash Wale, 1^st person narrator, employee in Moonglow, an amusement park’, 3rd of 12 stories in BM

~ William B. Rainey, “The Garden of Violent Death”, ‘Philip Dumaine, New Orleans private gumshoe & Negro sidekick, Ben Bolt’, pseudonym of Wyatt Blassingame, only appearance in BM under this name

~ H.H. Stinson, “This Murder’s On Me”, ‘Van Hogan, Worldwide Agency dick, 1^st -person narrator’, 13th of 27 stories in BM

~ Roger Torrey, “Death Calls the Hand”, ‘13th (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, ‘ see p. 81 for letter from RT on story’, 41st of 50 appearances in BM

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September-October 1931 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

September-October 1931

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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June 1947 issue ~ cover art by Charles Dye

June 1947

cover art by Charles Dye

May 1932 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

May 1932

cover art by Tom Lovell

October 1935 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

October 1935 issue

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

better image than previously posted

~ W.T. Ballard, “You Never Know About Women”, 1^st of 7 with ‘Red Drake, undercover investigator for the State Racing Commission, 1^st-person narrator’, 15^th of 43 stories in BM

~ George Harmon Coxe, “Mr. Casey Flashgun Murder”, 14^th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 14^th of 31 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Crash and Carry”, 61th of 73 stories with Ed Jenkins, ‘The Phantom Crook’, 86th of 99 stories in BM

~ Preston Grady, “Massacre”, ‘Ned price, p.i., in South Carolina, 1^st-person narrator; smuggling & Chinese villain.’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Leslie T. White, “The City of Hell”, ‘four honest cops “put the Indian sign on a city of graft”’, author’s sole appearance in BM

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