Category: Hardboiled

January 1944 issue ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll

January 1944 issue

cover art by Gloria Stoll

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Stewart Sterling, “The Secret of Madam Zenobia” (Gil Vine)

Noel Loomis, “Dummies Don’t Bleed!“

Bruno Fischer, “The Case of the Handless Corpse”

Francis K. Allan, “Death at the Brimstone Border”

Curtiss T. Gardner, “Satan’s Insidious Chessmen” (Val Vickers)

William R. Cox, “Hell Over Hollywood” (Tom Kincaid)

March 15, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Newton Howitt

March 15, 1934 issue

cover art by John Newton Howitt

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T.T. Flynn, “Red Alibi” (Bob Blair)

Eric Taylor, “The Barbary Horrors” (Det. Jess Arno)

Frederick C. Davis, “Murder in Bronze” (John Law, PI)

only issue on which the magazine title appeared in red instead of the usual yellow

June 1926 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft

June 1926 issue

cover art by Fred Craft

better image than previously posted

~Tom Curry, “The House of Jewels”, 8th of 39 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Forget ‘Em All”, 9th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘The Phantom Crook’, 16th of 99 stories in BM

~ Cecil F. Hilleary, “The Lost Bullet”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Frederick Jackson, “Risky Whiskey”, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Black Burton Sits In”, 2nd of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 2nd of 39 stories in BM

~ Colin Martins, “Ho-o-o-o for Tango!”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Ralph E. Renaud, “Telling the Cock-eyed World”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Henry S. Whitehead, “Gahd Laff”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Jenny Meets the Boys”, ‘border air-story’, 3rd of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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