January 1945 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

January 1945 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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~ 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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January 15, 1934 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

January 15, 1934 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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Erle Stanley Gardner, “Time for Murder” (George Brokay)

John Lawrence, “The Scarlet Casket (Sam Beckett)

Leslie T. White, “The Zodiac Clue” (Bart Shane)

Jan Dana, “Panamint Oil”

George Alden Edson, “The Death Club” (Larry Sall)