Category: mystery

March 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

March 1948 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

John D. MacDonald, “With Soul So Dead”

Frederick C. Davis, “Nine Toes Up!”

Frank Huepper, “Plight of the Pallbearer’s Honey” (Merrick)

H.Q. Masur, “Meet Me at the Morgue”

John N. Polito, “Better Off Buries”

Charles Ingerman, “The Photogenic Corpse”

Frank Nash, “Murder Static”

August 1, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Newton Howitt

August 1, 1934 issue

cover art by John Newton Howitt

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “Easy to Kill” (Izzy O’Shea)

John Lawrence, “Call All Cars!” (Cass Blue)

Hugh B. Cave, “The Late Mr. Smythe” (Peter Kane)

Maxwell Hawkins, “Fair and Murder” (Jones & Jones)

Allan Vaughan Elston, “Star Witness”

Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Man’s Dinner” (Det. Colohan)

D.E. Winstead, “Heel Prints” (PI Tyson of Townsend Agency)

this is the first issue with 144 pages

July 1926 issue ~ cover art by Dodge

July 1926 issue

cover art by Dodge

~ Carroll John Daly, “The False Clara Burkhart”, 14th of 53 with Race Williams, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015), 22nd of 71 appearances in BM

~ William Colt MacDonald, “Romney Gets the Dope”, Western, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Howard E. Morgan, “The Prisoner at Silver City”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Herman Petersen, “The Knife”, last of 20 stories in BM

~ Harry Emmons Rolfe, “Tin Cans”, ‘short-short’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ George Surrey, “The King of Pearls”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Black Air”, 4th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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