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January 1945 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

January 1945 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

~ D.L. Champion, “A Corpse Means Cash”, 16th of 26 stories Rex Sackler, 18th of 30 stories in BM

~ Dale Clark, “That’s Murder for You”, 19th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 22nd of 32 stories in BM

~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Good Hunting”, last of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps19th of 20 stories in BM

~ Julius Long, “Leave Your Killing Card”, 3rd of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 8th of 23 stories in BM

~ Robert Reeves, “Blood, Sweat and Biers”, 9th Cellini Smith, ‘Smith & a boxing-fix’, reprinted in Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith (Steeger, 2020), 11th of 12 appearances in BM

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October 1922 issue

October 1922 issue

~ Carroll John Daly, “Dolly”, ‘1st person narrated mood piece…see p. 65 for editorial comment on story’, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015), 1st of 71 appearances in BM

~ David Dart, “Parker Proves His Theory”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Frederick C. Davis, “Floating Pearls”, 2nd of 16 stories in BM

~ Mary Browne, “Man, Woman and the Iceman”, sole appearance in BM

~ Henry W. Fisher, “The Truth About the Belgrade Assassinations”, ‘Murders of King Alexander & Queen Dragna of Serbia in 1903’, 1st of 7 long pieces in BM

~ Jack J. Gottlieb, “Ling the Lucky”, ‘Chinese gunman Ling Yar in San Francisco’, author’s 6th of 8 stories

~ Francis F. Gregory, “A Pile of Dust”, author’s sole story in BM

~ Francis James, “The Sand Devil”, ‘billed as “A Complete Novelette of Mystery and Action…This weird story should be ready by daylight”; debut of Prentice, Harvard-trained criminologist, turned policeman’, 1st of 20 appearances in BM

~ Murray Leinster (pseud. of Will F. Jenkins), “The Wallet That Weighed Too Much”, 5th of 7 stories in BM

~ Herman Petersen, “A Gold-Digger’s Man” and “Half Across the World”, 3rd and 4th of 20 stories in BM

~ Howard P. Rockey, “False Witness”, last of 5 stories in BM

~ Robert Russell, “Suspiciously Good Behavior”, 1st of 3 stories in BM

~ Robert E(mmett) Sherwood, “Film Thrillers”, film-review series, short –lived department, not indexed beyond this issue

~ Ward Sterling, “The Concrete Facts About Thomas Hancock”, last of 16 stories under this name in BM [44th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Harold Ward and H.W. Starr]

~ J. Ainsworth Wood, “Beyond”, ‘brief-brief’, author’s only appearance in BM

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