December 1935 issue
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
better image than previously posted
Hugh B. Cave, “Daughters of Dark Desire”
Maitland Scott, “House-Guest from Hell”
Paul Ernst, “They Wear Death’s Face”
Karl Hans Strobl, “Dead Woman’s Lodger”
John H. Knox, “Girl Into Mummy”
Arthur J. Burks, “Death—The Tempter”
Norvell W. Page, “Bodies in Bronze”
George Alden Edson, “Hotel of the Damned”
June 1931 issue
cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
~ Eugene Cunningham, “Gunhands”, Western with Bob Burney, 5th of 14 stories in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “’The Flame’ and Race Williams”, 39th of 53 with RW, part 1 of 3, ‘pub.as The Third Murderer (1931)’, reprinted in Shooting out of Turn: The Collected Hard-boiled Stories of Race Williams, v.3 (Altus, 2017), 51st of 71 appearances in BM
~ James P. Olsen, “Gunman’s Goal”, ‘Tip Wing’, last of 6 Western stories in BM
~ Earl and Marion Scott, “Lights Out at Benetti’s”, 5th of 6 stories with ‘Phil Craleigh, once brilliant lawyer, now a drunk, given to bouts of reform’, Benetti’s is a nightclub, 15th of 17 stories in BM as a couple
~ Stewart Stirling, (‘possible pseud. of Stewart Sterling?’), “Two-Timer”, 2nd of 8 stories with ‘Johnny Hi Gear, a.k.a. K-5, Undercover Agent’ [Sterling and Stirling were pen names of Nathaniel Prentice Winchell, 20 total stories in BM]. Reprinted in Boomerang Dice: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Johnny Hi Gear (Steeger Books, 2020).
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “For Sale – Murder”, ‘Center City yarn, Gil Baggart, a square dick’, sequel to “Soft City” in previous issue, 49th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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