Category: crime fiction

November 1922 issue

cover art by A. Rose

~Eustace Hale Ball & Earl Derby, “Dead Men Do Tell!”, ‘The First of the Black Mask Daytime Stories – not to be read at night by people with weak nerves.” EHB’s debut in BM

~ Carl Clausen, “The Careful Alibi”, ‘Complete Novelette’, 2^nd of 3 stories in BM

~ Frederick Ames Coates, “Bottled Judgment”, last of 5 stories in BM

~ Peter Condet, “The Indorsed Check”, ‘baseball background’, 1^st of 2 stories in BM

~ Thomas Ewing Dabney, “Tom Shepherd and the Rat”, 1^st of 2 stories in BM

~ Marie Eisenbrandt, “The Breaking Point”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ John Hanlon, “A Shred of Yellow Paper, ‘short-short, less than a half page‘, 1^st of 3 stories in BM

~ Roy L. McCardell, “A Million A Year”, 1st of 4 parts, 1^st of 5 appearances in BM

~ J.R. McCarthy, “Payment As Promised”, ‘short-short’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ John McColl, “But She Looked Lovely”, ‘poem’, 1^st of 3 works in BM

~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “The Goat”, 13th of 29 stories in BM

~ Herman Petersen, “Shark-Bait”, ‘short-short‘, 5th of 20 stories in BM

~ A. Rose, “A Substitute for Blood”, ‘story illus. by author who also designed cover of issue’, author’s sole story in BM

~ Joe Taylor, “The Life of a Hold-Up Man”, ‘1^st (of 12) tales in ‘My Underworld’ series; JT is advertised as ‘ex-automobile bandit’ with 15 years’ experience in crime; early on, listed as fact; later, as fiction; see p. 40 for photo-portrait of JT’, 1st of 13^th appearances in BM

~                         Sally Dixon Wright, “The House on the Dunes”, author’s only appearance in BM

©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

[cover updated 11/8/25]
























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