Category: crime fiction

November 1921 issue

~ John Baer, “The Silver Lining”, 11^th of 24 stories in BM

~ Walter Deffenbaugh, “The Talking Wind”, 6^th of 14 stories in BM

~ Elizabeth (Bessie) Dudley, “The Blonde Shadow”, 2nd of 4 stories in BM

~ Grover Fayerweather, “When Two Plus Two Equals Five”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Victor Lauriston, “The Dead Man’s Letters”, 1^st of 2 stories in BM

~ H.W. Starr, “The Sheriff Takes the Stand”, 1^st of 3 stories by the same author under 3 different names (with Ward and Sterling) in this issue

~ Ward Sterling, “The Whip of Death”, 2nd of 3 stories in this issue (see Ward), 9th of 16 stories under this name in BM

~ Frederic J. Thorne, “The Death Warrant”, part 2 of 2, ‘A Mystery Novel’, 5th of 10 stories

~ Frederic J. Thorne, “The Man Who Died Twice”, ‘narrated by defendant to jury; murder of twins in Seattle & Hong Kong’, 2^nd of 2 stories in this issue, 6th of 10 stories in BM

~ Harold Ward, “The Hand of Destiny”, ‘Secret Service op, 1^st person narrator’, 3^rd story in this issue, 18th of 29 stories under this name in BM [26^th, 27^th and 28th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]

~ J.R. Ward, “The Bamboozler”, ‘N.B. It is possible that JRW is also a pseudonym of Harold Ward’, 1^st of 2 stories in this issue, 1^st of three under this name in BM

~ J.R. Ward, “The Emperor of Blunderland”, 2^nd of 2 stories in this issue, last of three under this name in BM

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