Tag: carl clausen

June 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

June 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

John Lawrence, “Murder Must Go On!” (Marquis of Broadway)

Carl Clausen, “The Bell of Blackman’s Knob”

Cornell Woolrich, “Meet Me by the Mannequin”

D.L. Champion, “Turn in Your Badge!” (Insp. Allhoff)

Wyatt Blassingame, “The Coral Band”

October 1926 issue

October 1926 issue

~ Carl Clausen, “The Turquoise Ring”, last of 3 stories in BM

~ Cyril J. Conrad, “A Breath of Suspicion”, only story in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Buzzard Bait”, 2nd of 7 with Black Bear, 18th of 99 stories in BM

~ Donald MacGregor, “Full Speed Ahead”, last of 10 stories

~ Lt. Col. J.H. [John Henry] Patterson, D.S.O., “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo”, 1st of 7 serialized parts of this ex-British Army officer’s account of building a railway in Kenya, 1898-1899; book published in 1927

~ Hal Rammel, “So Spake the Prophet”, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Sarah Harbine Weaver, “A Knight’s Night Out”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

November 1922 issue ~ cover art by A. Rose

November 1922 issue

cover art by A. Rose

~Eustace Hale Ball & Earl Derby, “Dead Men Do Tell!”, ‘The First of the Black Mask Daytime Stories – not to be read at night by people with weak nerves.” EHB’s debut in BM

~ Carl Clausen, “The Careful Alibi”, ‘Complete Novelette’, 2nd of 3 stories in BM

~ Frederick Ames Coates, “Bottled Judgment”, last of 5 stories in BM

~ Peter Condet, “The Indorsed Check”, ‘baseball background’, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Thomas Ewing Dabney, “Tom Shepherd and the Rat”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Marie Eisenbrandt, “The Breaking Point”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ John Hanlon, “A Shred of Yellow Paper, ‘short-short, less than a half page‘, 1st of 3 stories in BM

~ Roy L. McCardell, “A Million A Year”, 1st of 4 parts, 1st of 5 appearances in BM

~ J.R. McCarthy, “Payment As Promised”, ‘short-short’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ John McColl, “But She Looked Lovely”, ‘poem’, 1st of 3 works in BM

~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “The Goat”, 13th of 29 stories in BM

~ Herman Petersen, “Shark-Bait”, ‘short-short‘, 5th of 20 stories in BM

~ A. Rose, “A Substitute for Blood”, ‘story illus. by author who also designed cover of issue’, author’s sole story in BM

~ Joe Taylor, “The Life of a Hold-Up Man”, ‘1st (of 12) tales in ‘My Underworld’ series; JT is advertised as ‘ex-automobile bandit’ with 15 years’ experience in crime; early on, listed as fact; later, as fiction; see p. 40 for photo-portrait of JT’, 1st of 13th appearances in BM

~                         Sally Dixon Wright, “The House on the Dunes”, author’s only appearance in BM

©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

[cover updated 11/8/25]
























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