November 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

November 1943 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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T.T. Flynn, “Weather Fair – – Track Bloody (Mr. Maddox)

D.L. Champion, “Aaron Had a Rod” (Inspector Allhoff)

H.H. Stinson, “Keep ‘Em Dying”

Day Keene, “A Great Whirring of Wings”

Julius Long, “The Dead Don’t Tell”

November 1927 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft

November 1927 issue

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cover art by Fred Craft

~ Tom Curry, “The Raiders”, 11th of 23 with Macnamara (Mac), NYPD 1st grade dick, 18th of 39 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Wax Wagon”, 17th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, with Helen Chadwick & Soo Hoo Duck, 27th of 99 stories in BM

~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Cleansing of Poisonville”, 1st of 4 Continental Op stories that will go together to make up Red Harvest (published 1929), 26th of 45 stories in BM

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Get Burton”, 8th of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 10th of 39 stories in BM

~ Raymond Emery Lawrence, “Riker Accomodates” [spelling in Hagemann], ‘aviator’, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ John W. McCardell, “The Return of Gun Eagen”, ‘Western’, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “With Benefit of Law”, ’boxing & crooks’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 9 of 67 stories in BM

~ Everett H. Tipton, “One Bad Man”, ‘Western’, 1st of 7 stories in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Red Pearls”, ‘police dick, Lou Kyle’, 16th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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October 1932 issue

October 1932 issue

cover art by Penrhyn Stanlaws

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Dashiell Hammett, “Too Many Have Lived”, a Sam Spade short story – first appearance – illustrated by J. M. Clement

reprinted in 1945 in the Dell mapback A Man Called Spade

1945 Dell mapback

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“A Man Called Spade”

“They Can Only Hang You Once”

“Too Many Have Lived”

“The Assistant Murderer”

“His Brother’s Keeper”