Category: western fiction

September 1927 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft

September 1927 issue

cover art by Fred Craft

~ Katherine Brocklebank, “Snowbirds”, 2nd of 7 stories in BM

~ Tom Curry, “Jungle Thieves”, ‘Venezuela & Federal Agents on the chase’, 11th of 39 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “This Way Out”, 14th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, “First [of 3] of Ed Jenkins’ thrilling adventures with ‘The Girl with the Mole’” [consecutive issues], reprinted in Dead Men’s Letters (1990, Carroll & Graf anthology of Jenkins stories), (title repeats 3/1937, but is different story), 23rd of 99 stories in BM

~ (Charles John) Cutcliffe Hyne, “The Escape”, 5th of 8 yarns with Captain Kettle

~ Don Livingston, “No Grandstand Play”, ‘Western‘, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “China Silk”, ‘introducing Buck Jason – booze runner extraordinary’, ‘1st of 3 with BJ’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 4 of 67 stories

~ Lt. Col. J.H. [John Henry] Patterson, D.S.O., “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo”, 6th of 7 serialized parts of this ex-British Army officer’s account of building a railway in Kenya, 1898-1899; book published in 1927

~ Riblew Reelhew, “The Robbing of Mind Tai Low”, ‘Chinatown character outwits crook’, 1st of 2 stories under this pseudonym, an anagram of Wilber Wheeler

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Sky-High Odds”, ‘3rd of 7 Chuck Reddington story; airplanes & machineguns’, 11th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

~ Erika Zastrow, “Joe’s Woman”, ‘in street-dialect’, 1st of 3 stories in BM

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(first copy of this title found in a dozen years of searching)

September 1928 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft

September 1928 issue

cover art by Fred Craft

~ William Donald Bray, “The Red Mackinaw”, ‘mining yarn’, 2nd of 12 stories in BM

~ Tom Curry, “Murder Chains”, part 1 of 2, ‘gangster yarn; John Furnel, alias The Grand Street Kid; see p. 128 for data on & photo of TC’, 16th of 39 stories in BM

~ Carroll John Daly, “The Snarl of the Beast”, 21st of 53 with Race Williams, last of 4 part  serial, published as a novel in 1927 as The Snarl of the Beast, reprinted in The Snarl of the Beast: The Collected Hard-boiled Stories of Race Williams, v.2 (Altus, 2016), 30th of 71 appearances in BM

~ Bob Du Soe, “The Kid on Number Twenty”, 1st of 3 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Where the Buzzards Circle”, 4th of 7 Black Barr, 26th of 99 stories in BM

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Yellow Smoke”, 7th of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 9th of 39 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “A Grudge is a Grudge”, ‘among crooks, that is; police dick’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 8 of 67 stories in BM

~ Henry Wallace Phillips, “The Killing Nerve”, ‘Western’, 1st of 8 with Red Saunders, 3rd of 12 stories in BM

~ Erika Zastrow, “The Crook Who Wanted To Be Straight”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM

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August 1928 issue ~ cover art by H.C. Murphy

August 1928 issue

cover art by H.C. Murphy

better image than previously posted

~ Tom Curry, “The Master”, 7th and last DeVrite, with Mac, 26th of 39 stories in BM

~ Carroll John Daly, “Rough Stuff”, 25th of 53,‘Race Williams vs. The Hidden Hand; Pt. 3 of 5 loosely organized 5-pt. serial’, reprinted in The Snarl of the Beast: The Collected Hard-boiled Stories of Race Williams, v.2 (Altus, 2016), 37th of 71 appearances in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Fangs of Fate”, 5th of 7 Black Barr, 33rd of 99 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Hell to Pay”, ‘Chicago hood; 1st -person narrator’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 12 of 67 stories in BM

~ Stephen Payne, “Night-Riding Ruddy”, ‘Western; with Ruddy Ingersoll‘, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Lester Reynard, “Ritzie Gets Clever”, ‘Western; Deputy ‘Happy’ Collins & girl, Ritzie’, 1st of 5 stories in BM

~ Everett H. Tipton, “El Tigre Was Bad”, ‘Bobby Warren, reporter, in Juárez (Chihuahua)’, 6th of 7 stories in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “High Death”, ‘Mac, Ben Greed; 3rd of 6 in Border Brand series’, reprinted in Border Brand (Steeger, 2024), 23rd of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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September 1922 issue ~ cover art by William Grotz

September 1922 issue

cover art by William Grotz

~ John Baer, “The Murderer’s Name and Address”, 22nd of 24 stories in BM

~ M. Hernaiz Becerra, “The Ordway Suicide Mystery”, only story in BM

~ Hubert Raymond Carter [prename also given as Herbert], “The House with Silver Shutters”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Frederick C. Davis, “The Living Dead”, 1st of 16 stories in BM

~ Meredith Davis, “Velvet Tips”, 1st of 3 stories in BM

~ Jack J. Gottlieb, “Eyes That See Not”, ‘North, a criminal, & poetic justice’, 5th of 8 stories in BM

~ Robert Hannan, “The Thirteenth Victim”, ‘short-short’, only appearance in BM

~ Herman Petersen, “The Seven Gilded Balls” and “Poisoned Gas”, author’s 1st and 2nd of 20 stories in BM

~ Howard P. Rockey, “Madge the Mouse”, 4th of 5 stories in BM

~ J.J. Stagg, “The Broken Melody”, last of 11 stories in BM

~ Harold Ward, “Dollars and Scents”, ‘Complete Mystery Novelette’, 27th of 29 stories under this name in BM [43rd of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]

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April 15, 1932 Canadian edition ~ cover art by cover by Gerard C. Delano

April 15, 1932 Canadian edition

cover art by cover by Gerard C. Delano

(date, contents, and cover art same as US)

August 1936 issue ~ cover art by John Drew

August 1936 issue

cover art by John Drew

better image than previously posted

~ W.T. Ballard, “Fugitive for Justice”, 4th of 7 with ‘Red Drake, undercover investigator for the State Racing Commission, 1st-person narrator’, 20th of 43 stories in BM

~ John K. Butler, “You Can’t Bribe Bullets”, ‘Marty Lewis, 1st person-narrator, & shady local politics’, 4th of 11 stories in BM

~ James Duncan, “Heir to Murder”, ‘Jerry Blaze’, 4th of 10 stories in BM

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Homicide Cue”, 27th of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 34th of 39 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Deep Red”, last of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy, v.4 (Altus, 2013), last of 66 original stories in BM (plus reprints from outside BM)

~ Roger Torrey, “Border Blockade”, ‘4th (of 5) of George Killeen, private ‘tec in L.A., & 1st-person narrator; with Lieutenant McFee, Homicide’, ‘California, i.e., Mexican border’, 20th of 50 appearances in BM

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