Category: mystery

July 1935 issue

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

better image than previously posted

~ William Donald Bray, “Hot Gold”, 3^rd of 4 Britt Hardsley stories, of the Carneal Construction Co., ‘man of murder and mystery’, 1^st person narrator, 10th of 12 stories in BM

~ George Harmon Coxe, “Buried Evidence”, ‘Tom Wade with Flashgun Casey’, 12^th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 12^th of 31 stories in BM

~ B.B. Fowler, “A Frame Should Stick”, ‘Red Candless, reporter’, 1^st of 2 stories in BM

~ Dick Moreland, “Blue Dandy”, ‘Jim Delf, owner of Blue Dandy Kennels‘, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “Murderer’s Guest”, ‘11th (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’, 12th of 26 stories in BM. Reprinted in South Wind: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jerry Tracy (Steeger Books, 2021).

~ Roger Torrey, “Nose Trouble”, ‘3rd of 4 stories starring 1^st-person narrator Mike O’Dell, ex-wrestler, now bodyguard’, 17th of 50 appearances in BM. Reprinted in South Wind: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jerry Tracy (Steeger Books, 2021).

~ Thomas Walsh, “Death Can Come Hard”, ‘Dr. Ed French, interne, 1^st-person narrator’, 5th of 6 stories in BM

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