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November 1938 issue

November 1938 issue

cover art by John Drew? David Berger?

Ward Hawkins, “Shadow of the Corpse-Maker”

Loring Dowst, “Murder Comes to Breakfast”  (Pendexter Riddle/The Human Question Mark)

Norvell W. Page, “Bringer of Fiery Death”

Paul Ernst, “Madam Bluebeard’s Home”

Nat Schachner, “Street of Creeping Terror’ 

Henry Treat Sperry, “Brotherhood of Destruction?

better image than previously posted

[updated 11/17/25]

October 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

October 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

Carroll John Daly, “Anyone’s Corpse” (Race Williams)

T.T. Flynn, “Burning Ice”

Fred MacIsaac, “Fall-Guy” (Rambler Murphy)

John Lawrence, “Escape Mechanism (Marquis of Broadway)

Cornell Woolrich, “Stuck with Murder”

Donald S. Aitken, “Two Heels Too Many” (Det. Pope)

[updated 11/13/25]

January 1930 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

January 1930 issue

better image than previously posted

cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Double or Quit”, 31th of 73 with Ed Jenkins, ‘last episode in his fight with Ramsey: Arthur Hemington also around’, 48th of 99 stories in BM

~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Maltese Falcon”, part last of 5 serialized parts before hardcover publication (1931), 39th of 45 stories in BM

~ Horace McCoy, “The Little Black Book”, 4th of 14 Frost stories with ‘Capt. Jerry Frost, Texas (Air) Ranger’, 5th of 17 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Tough Treatment”, 8th of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy, ‘but not in Richmond City’, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kenney, v.1 (Altus, 2013), 20 of 67 stories in BM

~ Henry Wallace Phillips, “A Chance Shot”, ‘Western mystery’, 4th of 8 with Red Saunders, 8th of 12 stories in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Red Smoke”, ‘Mal Ourney; part 2 (of 5), ‘The Crime Breeders’, presented as separate stories rather than conventional serial’, published in hardcover in 1930 by Knopf as Green Ice, 36th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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