Category: mystery

June 1939 issue ~ cover art by Edgar A. Whitney

June 1939 issue

cover art by Edgar A. Whitney

better image than previously posted

~ Dwight V. Babcock, “Reward Chaser”, 5th of 7, Beeker at SF World’s Fair, 19th of 21 stories in BM

~ Tiah Devitt, “For a Million Dollars”, ‘Joey narrates a crime to the Warden’, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Death Plays Seventeen”, 10th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida

~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “Guide to Murder”, ‘24th (of 25) Jerry Tracy capers, columnist on the (NYC) Planet, ‘mixer with poor and rich, the crooked and the straight, trailer of trouble and happiness’, ‘murder at the World’s Fair’, reprinted in Station K-I-L-L: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jerry Tracy, vol.3 (Steeger, 2024), 25th of 26 stories in BM

~ Lawrence Treat, “Sing a Song of Murder”, ‘G-man’, 3rd of 5 stories in BM

~ Ralph Winnett, “Poison Gloves”, ‘boxing’, author’s only appearance in BM

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August 1921 issue

August 1921 issue

~ John Baer, “Circumstantial Evidence and Guilt”, 7th of 24 stories in BM

~ Walter Deffenbaugh, “Glass Jade”, 4th of 14 stories in BM

~ Ford Douglas, “The ‘Plant’”, 3rd of 4 stories in BM

~ Arthur S. Garbett, “The Wax Witness”, 1st of 4 stories in BM

~ J.B. Harris-Burland, “Barbour’s New Book”, author’s only appearance in BM

~ J.B. Hawley, “Footprints”, 5th of 12 stories in BM

~ J.L. Martin, “The Tip on the Market”, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Vincent Starrett, “The Case of the Shoeless Man”, last of 4 stories in BM

~ Ward Sterling, “The Mystery of the Chessmen”, 1 of 2 stories in this issue (see Ward), 8th of 16 stories under this name in BM

~ Harold Ward, “The Ship on Dunbar’s Breast”, 2nd story in this issue, 16th of 29 stories under this name in BM [23rd and 24th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]

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November 22, 2014