Category: Hardboiled

December 1932 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

December 1932 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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T.T. Flynn, “The Black Doctor” (Val Easton, Secret Service)

Frederick Nebel, “A Truck Load of Diamonds” (Cardigan)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Marked Money” (Dane Skarle)

Richard J. Credicott, “The Three Horrible Heads” (Anthony Fletcher)

Joseph Mulvaney, “Smart Like a Fox” (Oscar Fox)

October 1926 issue ~ cover art by Andrew Bensen

October 1926

cover art by Andrew Bensen

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stories included:

Herbert Asbury, “The Thing Without a Name” (Part 1 of ?)

Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Shooting Stakes”

Robert Leslie Bellem, “Buried Evidence”

Raoul Fauconnier Whitfield, “The Dead Man’s Eyes”

1952 Falcon paperback original – cover art by George Gross

1952 Falcon paperback original

cover art by George Gross

his first novel, not only as Hunter but as Ed McBain as well

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cover art repurposed for 1959 Beacon paperback original

May 1938 issue ~ cover art by Raymond S. Pease

May 1938 issue

cover art by Raymond S. Pease

~ William R. Cox, “Half a Crook”, murder & politics, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Carroll John Daly, “I Am the Law”, ‘Meet that implacable, coldly reckless manhunter, Satan Hall’, 1st of 2 stories (he mostly appeared in Dime Detective Magazine), 67th of 71 appearances in BM

~ James Duncan, “A Deal in Coconuts”, 4 of 5 stories with The Parson, who lives on a ‘mythical’ (fictional?) isle, Cariba, reprinted in Murder for Pennies: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Parson (Steeger, 2024), 9th of 10 stories in BM

~ Steve Fisher, “Wait for Me”, ‘murder & intrigue in Shanghai’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 5th of 9 stories in BM

~ Frank Gruber, “Death Sits Down”, 5th of 10 with ‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, 7th of 14 stories in BM

~ Roger Torrey, “Murder Link”, ‘7th (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’, 34th of 50 appearances in BM

~ Donald Wandrei, “Game of Legs”, ‘wrestler’, 2nd of 6 stories in BM

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