Category: mystery

March 1931 issue

cover art by J. W. Schlaikjer

better image than previously posted

~ Galen C. Colin, “Wrong Font Brands”, ‘Pica Slim, tramp printer’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Carroll John Daly, “Murder by Mail”, 38^th of 53 with Race Williams, ‘vs. Bull Lowery’, 50th of 71 appearances in BM

~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “The Man in White”, 2nd of 6 parts in the ‘Rainbow Diamonds’ sequence that take Jo Gar from Manila to San Francisco, 11^th of 24 Gar stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)

~ Grimes Hill (pseud. of Frederick Lewis Nebel), “The Kill”, 1^st of 2 stories in this issue by the author, 1^st of 2 stories under this name in BM, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014),

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Junk”, 13th of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy ‘fighting river pirates’, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kenney, v.2 (Altus, 2013), 30 of 67 Nebel stories in BM

~ James P. Olsen, “Who Knows?”, 5^th of 6 Western stories in BM

~ Joseph T. Shaw, “Derelict”, 2nd of 4-part serialization of his 1930 novel, ‘murder, romance and disaster on a deserted ocean liner’, 3rd of 9 fiction pieces in BM

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