Category: Hardboiled

February 1946 issue ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll

February 1946 issue

cover art by Gloria Stoll

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~ Thomson Burtis, “Deadline for Death”, ex-USA intelligence officer, now police Lt. Greg Sullivan, last of 6 appearances in BM

~ Dale Clark, “Murder Lode”, 24th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 27th of 32 stories in BM

~ Julius Long, “Flowers for Flanagan”, 10th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 15th of 23 stories in BM

~ Roland Phillips, “The Sentinel of Green Cove”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ William Rough, “Shoot If You Must”, ‘Ben Slabbe, p.i., who has his own agency; 2nd of 5 capers’ in BM

~ Ted Stratton, “Accounts Deceivable”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

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August 1932 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

August 1932 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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Westmoreland Gray, “The Beast in Black (Colin Windsor)

Carroll John Daly, “Murder at Midnight” (Vee Brown)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Forged Kill” (Dick Bentley)

Frederick Nebel, “Rogues’ Ransom” (Cardigan)

Oscar Schisgall, “The Hooded Terror” (Kent Carmiody)

Photo and profile of Gardner appeared on pgs. 123-24

Mischief

First Edition of MISCHIEF (1950), by Charlotte Armstrong.  Together with a typed letter from Armstrong to a collector, dated September 18th, 1957, the year she won the Edgar Award for ‘A Dram of Poison.’  8.5 X 11, numbering 321 words and showing some hand corrections throughout.  A charming and humorous letter, detailing everything from winning the Edgar Award, her reading habits, and Sherlock Holmes (“I read them when I was ten or eleven and it warped my life”).  Signed by Armstrong at the bottom, and a rare signature in our experience.  To date, this is the only signed material by Armstrong we have seen or handled.  Basis for the 1952 film noir ‘Don’t Bother To Knock’ directed by Roy Ward Baker, starring Richard Widmark, Anne Bancroft in her film debut, and Marylin Monroe in her first leading dramatic role.  An attractive copy of a scarce title, and in the author’s own words, “probably the best book I’ve written.”  

Pocket Books 805 reissue, 1951, cover by Robert Hilbert

October 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

October 1948 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Lethal Lulu” (Cash Wale)

W. Lee Herrington, “Who’ll Carry My Coffin?”

John D. MacDonald, “My Husband Dies Slowly”

Roy Sparkia, “Satan’s Scapegoat”

Robert Canton, “No Bones About It” (P.I. Kent)

Stanley C. Vickers, “Pushover for Purgatory”

Bruce Cassiday, “Doubled in Danger”

November 1942 issue

November 1942  issue

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The Editor, “The Coroner Takes Over”

Day Keene, “A Hearse of Another Color” [Silent Smith (The Silver Fox)]

Felix Graham, “Heil, Werewolf!“

William R. Cox, “Spades for the Dead”  (Tom Kincaid)

Fredric Brown, “Satan One-and-a-Half”

William Brandon, “Nightmare House”

Russell Gray, “The Caricature Murders”

May 1925 issue ~ cover art by O.K. Uzzell

May 1925 issue

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cover art by O.K. Uzzell

~ John Nicholas Beffel, “Finger-Prints”, ‘article – can fingerprints be forged?; this prompts answer from Dashiell Hammett’, June 1925 issue, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Painless Extraction”, 3rd of 10, ‘Bob Larkin in Mexico’, 6th of 99 stories in BM

~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Scorched Face”, ‘the Op, called here ‘The Continental Sleuth’ by ed.’, [11th of 22], 16th of 45 stories in BM

~ Lillian W. Keenan, “The Lost Glove Needle”, ‘described as ‘shrewd detective work’”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “An Adventure in Diamonds”, 9th of 10 with ‘Captain Valentine, that ‘attractive European scalawag’, adventurer and rascal’, 25th of 29 stories in BM

~ Charles Somerville, “The Tracking of a Fiend”, 40th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 41st of 49 total articles in BM

~ J. Paul Suter, “The Uncomfortable Buddha”, 5th of 15 stories with The Reverend McGregor Daunt, ‘clergyman by profession and detective by choice’, 8th of 19 appearances in BM

~ L. King Tichenor, “A Thousand Dollar Bill”, 1st of 5 stories in BM

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