
Happy and Merry

Happy and Merry

April 1921 issue
cover art by William Grotz
~ John Baer, “Partners in Crime”, 4th of 24 stories in BM
~ Hamilton Craigie, “The Lap of the Lady”, shop lifting and female impersonation, last of 7 solo stories in BM
~ Eric A. Darling, “The Pigtail of Wi-Wing-Ho”, ‘Chinese; diamond hidden in pigtail’, last of 5 stories in BM
~ Walter Deffenbaugh, “The Second Safe”, ‘safe-cracker, narrator’, 2nd of 14 stories in BM
~ Ford Douglas, “The Mardi Gras Souvenir”, ‘”Complete Mystery Novelette”, 1st-person narrator’, 1st of 4 stories in BM
~ Gaius Drew, “Murder Magic”, ‘Benson the Houseman’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Clinton [aka Charles] Harcourt, “The Hold-Up on Napoleon Boulevard”, ‘Barney Fagan, thief’, 5th of 6 stories in BM
~ Marc Edmond Jones, “Death’s Bridegroom”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “What the Moonlight Revealed”, 8th of 29 stories in BM
~ Hubert de Tavanne Roussel, “The Stained Paper”, ‘short-short’, and “The Yellow Stripe”, ‘set in the Kalahari Desert (South Africa)’, 2nd and 3rd of 7 stories in BM
~ Ward Sterling, “The Riddle of the Tattooed Men”, 1st of 2 stories in this issue (see Ward), 7th of 16 stories under this name in BM
~ John D. Swain, “Mahogany Brogues”, ‘cocaine addict kills bully on NYC subway’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Harold Ward, “Under the Crimson Skull”, ‘two detectives & Cora Morgan, “government operative’, 2nd story in this issue, 13th of 29 stories under this name in BM [19th and 20th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]
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cover art by William Reusswig
better image than previously posted
Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Hand of Horror” (Reed Sampsell)
Frederick Nebel, “Chains of Darkness” (Cardigan)
Frederick C. Davis, “Dead Men Walk” (Det. Lt. Bartholomew Brandt)
Richard J. Credicott, “The Ghoul of Murder Manor”


cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
~ Francis K. Allan, “That Second Answer”, ‘Shamus Tim Hall of Hall & Branch, NYC; info on FKA, p.8’, 1st of 2 stories in BM, but only original appearance
~ D.L. Champion, “Murder By the Ears”, 10th of 26 with Rex Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 11th of 30 stories in BM
~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Blood on the Book”, 11th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps, 11th of 20 stories in BM
~ John Lawrence, “Detour to Death”, last of 14 appearances in BM
~ Curt Siodmak, “Donovan’s Brain”, 2nd of 3 parts, serialization of the novel published in 1943, only 3 appearances in BM by the author and director
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