[cover updated 6/25/26]
Category: updated
May 25th, 1937 issue ~ cover art by A. R. Tilburne
December 1929 issue x 3
both better images than previously posted
cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Triple Treachery”, 30th of 73 stories with Ed Jenkins, with his wife Helen Chadwick, in LA, 2nd half of story with Ramsey, from previous issue, 47th of 99 stories in BM
~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Maltese Falcon”, part 4 of 5 serialized parts before hardcover publication (1931), reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 38th of 45 stories in BM
~ Horace McCoy, “Renegades of the Rio”, 3rd of 14 stories with ‘Capt. Jerry Frost, Texas (Air) Ranger’, 4th of 17 stories in BM
~ Lester Reynard, “Saving the Double-Cross”, 4th of 5 stories in BM
~ Earl and Marion Scott, “Craleigh Comes to Life”, 2nd of 6 stories with ‘Phil Craleigh, once brilliant lawyer, now a drunk, given to bouts of reform’, 10th of 17 stories in BM as a couple
~ L.R. Sherman, “Reading Sign on the Sagebrush Kid”, Western, last of 3 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Outside”, ‘Mal Ourney; part 1 (of 5), ‘The Crime Breeders’, presented as separate stories rather than conventional serial’, pub. in hardcover in 1930 by Knopf as Green Ice, 35th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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[post updated 6/21/26]
January 1938 issue ~ cover art by Harwood Forsgren
February 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
Damon Knight, “Slayer’s Solo”
Day Keene, “Doc Egg’s Graveyard Reunion” (Doc Egg)
Ejler Jacobson, “The Little Red Murder School”
Ken Lewis, “Country Cadaver”
Talmage Powell, “Stay as Dead as You Are”
Ken Kessler: “The Crimson Thread”
Robert Bloch, “The Noose Hangs High”
John Corbett, “Hound of Hell”
Milton T. Land, “Home to the Kill”
R. Sprague Hall, “The Case of the Walking God”
[cover updated 2/4/26]
August 1941 issue ~ cover art by Griffith Foxley
Double or Quits x 12
1941 Morrow hardcover, his 5th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam
1942 Dell mapback reissue – cover art by Gerald Gregg
1951 British Publishers Guild reissue
1953 Dell reissue, cover art by Fred Scotwood
better image than previously posted
1960 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted
1963 Dell reissue – cover art by Stanley Borack
1966 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett
2022 Mysterious Press/Open Road reissue
[post updated 9/26]
May 1937 issue ~ cover art by Alvin Pearson
1954 Bantam reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
1948 Dutton hardcover
his second book, also second with Ed and Am Hunter
cover art for this 1954 Bantam paperback by Charles Binger
better image than previously posted
[artist credit corrected 6/30/26]
