whodunnit – SMB Noir

1958 Avon reissue

1958 Avon reissue

July 1922 issue ~ cover art by William Grotz

July 1922 issue ~ cover art by William Grotz

~ John Baer, “Have A Smoke?”, 20^th of 24 stories in BM

~ George Briggs, “By His Own Hand –“, 2^nd of 2 BM stories

~ T.B. Burt, “Red Hot”, 2^nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Frederick Ames Coates, “The Accident”, 4^th of 5 stories in BM

~ J.S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher, “Exterior to the Evidence”, 4th of 5 parts, ‘serial re-run of novel 1^st pub in London (1920) with same title’, 4^th of 6 appearances in BM

~ Jack J. Gottlieb, “Crimsoned Baubles”, 4^th of 8 stories in BM

~ Harry C. Hervey, Jr., “The Devil at the Helm”, ‘A Complete Novelette’, last of 8 appearances in BM

~ George B. Jenkins, Jr., “Two Faultless Crimes”, 4th of 5 stories in BM

~ Lloyd Lonergan, “In the Grip of the Everglades”, 8^th and final story in BM

~ Fred B. Mann, “An Affair of Honor”, ‘short-short’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Howard P. Rockey, “When Lightning Strikes”, 2nd of 5 stories in BM

~ J.J. Stagg, “Post-Mortem Murder”, 9th of 11 stories in BM

~ Harold Ward, “The Mystery of the Mary Ann”, 24th of 29 stories under this name in BM [39^th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]

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April 1922 issue ~ cover art by William Grotz

April 1922 issue

cover art by William Grotz

~ John Baer, “The Campaign for Vengeance”, ‘A Complete mystery novelette’, 16^th of 24 stories in BM

~ George Briggs, “The Too-Easy Alibi”, 1^st of 2 BM stories

~ Walter Deffenbaugh, “A Track-and-a-Half”, 12^th of 14 stories in BM

~ J.S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher, “Exterior to the Evidence”, 1^st of 5 parts, ‘serial re-run of novel 1^st pub in London (1920) with same title’, 1^st of 6 appearances in BM

~ J.B. Hawley, “The Extra Dozen Eggs”, author’s last of 12 stories in BM

~ George B. Jenkins, Jr., “Appearances Are Deceiving”, 1^st of 5 stories in BM

~ Murray Leinster (pseud. of Will F. Jenkins), “Pink Ears”, and 2^nd of 7 stories under this name

~ Pettersen Marzoni, “The Light That Lies”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ R.T.M. Scott (Reginald Thomas Maitland), “The Trap”, ‘Secret Service Smith’, 1^st of 2 stories in BM

~ J.J. Stagg, “The Finger of Guilt”, 6th of 11 stories in BM

~ Ward Sterling, “The Brand of Cain”, 1st of 3 stories in this issue (see Ward), 12th of 16 stories under this name in BM

~ Ward Sterling, “Hankenson’s Perfect Crime”, 2nd of 3 stories in this issue (see Ward), 13th of 16 stories under this name in BM

~ Harold Ward, “The Man Who Was Two”, 3^rd story in this issue, 23rd of 29 stories under this name in BM [35^th, 36^th and 37th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]

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January 1921 issue ~ cover art by Archie Gunn

January 1921 issue

cover art by Archie Gunn

~ John Baer, “The Murder of An Te-Hai”, ‘NYC’s Chinatown’, 1^st of 24 stories in BM

~ Frank Blighton, “An Automatic Alibi”, ‘bank fraud; 1^st-person narrator’, 2^nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Hamilton Craigie, “The Pendulum of Fate”, 5^th of 7 solo stories in BM

~ Eric A. Darling, “The Malachite Jar”, 4^th of 5 stories in BM

~ Stephen H. Edwards, “Detective Alias Thief”, ‘con men outwit banker, et al., in a small Montana town’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Clinton [aka Charles] Harcourt, “The White Face at the Cellar Window”, 4tf of 6 stories in BM

~ James Edward Hungerford, “By Fast Freight”, embezzlement in and around San Francisco, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Julian Kilman, “Playing a Hunch”, ‘Dave Lacey, just out of prison’, 4th of 6 stories in BM

~ J.C. Kofoed, “The Puzzling Affair in the Rue Tilsit”, ‘Complete Novelette; fired NYC cop murdered in Paris’, 6^th of 9 stories in BM

~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “The Plan That Was Outlined by Monahan”, ‘young dip, yegg, & wire man’, 7th of 29 stories in BM

~ Harold Ward, “While the Blizzard Raged”, ‘people marooned with a murderer, 1^st-person narrator’, 10th of 29 stories under this name in BM [14th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]

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The Death Dealers x 9

1958 Avon paperback original – cover art by Robert Maguire

1958 Sphere UK paperback original with new title

republished in 1968 by Walker as A Whiff of Death

1969 Lancer reissue

1970 Sphere reissue in the UK

1977 Sphere reissue

undated Lancer reissue from the 70s

1980 Fawcett reissue

1987 Fawcett reissue

February 1927 issue ~ cover art by Frank H. Harbaugh

February 1927 issue

cover art by Francis H. Harbaugh

better image than previously posted

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Cat-Woman”, 13th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, reprinted in Dead Men’s Letters (1990, Carroll & Graf anthology of Jenkins stories), reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 22nd of 99 stories in BM

~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Big Knock-Over”, Continental Op [20^th of 25], see 5/1927 for sequel, “$106,000 Blood Money”, reprinted with its sequel as Blood Money (Tower, 1943), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), 29th of 51 stories in BM

~ (Charles John) Cutcliffe Hyne, “Fortunes Adrift”, 4th of 8 yarns with Captain Kettle

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “The Stolen Rancho”, ‘border tale’, 5th of 39 stories in BM

~ Lt. Col. J.H. [John Henry] Patterson, D.S.O., “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo”, 5th of 7 serialized parts of this ex-British Army officer’s account of building a railway in Kenya, 1898-1899; book published in 1927

~ J. Paul Suter, “The Tail of the Serpent”, 12th of 15 stories with The Reverend McGregor Daunt, ‘clergyman by profession and detective by choice’, ‘robbery & murder in archeological museum’, 16th of 19 appearances in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “White Murder”, 2nd of 7 Chuck Reddington story; airplanes & machineguns’, 10th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]