Category: Hardboiled

March 1925 issue

March 1925 issue

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Hard As Nails”, 2nd of 73 Ed Jenkins, 5th of 99 stories in BM

~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Whosis Kid”, the Op [14th of 25], reprinted in The Return of the Continental Op (Dell mapback, 1947), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), in The Girl with the Silver Eyes: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Continental Op, vol.2 (Steeger, 2023), 21st of 51 stories in BM

~ J.E. McDowell, “The True Story of the Benders”, ‘short-lived Department of Investigations; not indexed beyond this point’ [Bloody Benders of Kansas?]

~ Donald MacGregor, “The Literary Failings of Robber Bill”, 3rd of 10 stories

~ Ira D. Mullinax, “Bas Burke Keeps a Date”, Western mystery, author’s only appearance in BM

~ William Rollins, Jr., “Treasures That Dead Men Guard”, part 2 of 3, last of 3 stories with Jack Darrow, 11th of 23 stories in BM

~ Charles Somerville, “The Clue of the Bad Check”, 38th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 39th of 49 total articles in BM

~ J. Paul Suter, “The Cat Mocker”, 4th of 15 stories with The Reverend McGregor Daunt, ‘clergyman by profession and detective by choice’, 7th of 19 appearances in BM

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June 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

June 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

~ Donald S. Aitken, “The Same Old Oil”, ‘Jack Gale, private dick’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Paul Allenby, “Overseer of the Poor”, ‘short-short’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Tong Trouble”, 67th of 73 with Ed Jenkins, with Soo Hoo Duck and Ngat T’oy, 94th of 100 appearances in BM

~ John Lawrence, “Body of Evidence”, ‘Al Hackett, Broadway squad (plainclothes), 1st-person narrator’, reprinted in Body of Evidence: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Broadway Squad (Steeger, 2025), 6th of 14 stories in BM

~ H.H. Stinson, “Clamp Down”, 8th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 14th of 27 stories in BM

~ Roger Torrey, “Too Many Angles”, ‘Donovan, the “hard-luck shamus”’, 45th of 50 appearances in BM

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September 1936 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

September 1936 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

better image than previously posted

John Lawrence, “The Corpse That Didn’t Die” (Drago of HQ Dept)

Leslie T. White, “Ashes of the Living” (Ted Naughton, arson dick)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Vanishing Venus” (Carter Cold, MD)

Robert Sidney Bowen, “Into Thin Air” (Kip Lacey)

William E. Barrett, “A Man’s Last Hours” (Blue Barrel)