


cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
~ Carroll John Daly, “Death for Two”, 42nd of 53 with RW, Race ‘Williams pinch-hits for his friend, Sergeant O’Rourke’, reprinted in Shooting out of Turn: The Collected Hard-boiled Stories of Race Williams, v.3 (Altus, 2017), 54th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Promise to Pay”, 37th of 73 Ed Jenkins, with Lui Sing Fong, patriarchal master of Chinatown, 2nd of 3 connected stories (7/1931 and 12/1931), 54th of 99 stories in BM
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “The Sound of Guns”, 16th of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, ‘set in NYC’, 22nd of 39 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Pearls are Tears”, 6th of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 34 of 67 stories in BM
~ Stewart Stirling, (‘possible pseud. of Stewart Sterling?’), “Pushover”, 4th of 8 stories with ‘Johnny Hi Gear, a.k.a. K-5, Undercover Agent’, ‘…& boxing fix’ [Sterling and Stirling were pen names of Nathaniel Prentice Winchell, 20 total stories in BM]. Reprinted in Boomerang Dice: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Johnny Hi Gear (Steeger Books, 2020).
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Red Terrace”, ‘Alan Van Cleve, wealthy sportsman, man-about-town, 2nd (of 6) segment in The Skyline Murders series; printed as separate stories rather than conventional serial’; pub. as Killer’s Carnival (1932) under pseudonym of Temple Field’, 50th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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cover art by H.C. Murphy
~John Ayotte, “Hawaiian Driftage”, ‘opium ring in Honolulu: some characters from “The Puzzle of Hook Nam”, JA’s last appearance in BM’
~ Ray(mond King) Cummings, “The Mystery at Cragmoor”, only non-McGuirk story (see Apr 23), 14th of 15 stories in BM
~ Tom Curry, “The Frame-Up”, author’s 1st of 39 stories in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “Alias Buttercup”, 10th of 53 with RW, ‘Race Williams in Mexico’, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015), 18th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Joseph Gollomb, “A Pass Key to Scotland Yard”, 3rd of 6 articles
~ Donald MacGregor, “The Dancer in the East”, 5th of 10 stories
~ Charles Somerville, “A Weird Detective”, 44th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 46th of 49 total articles in BM
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cover art by William Reusswig
better image than previously posted
Carroll John Daly, “The Black Warning” (Vee Brown)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Dressed to Kill” (Paul Pry)
J. Paul Suter, “Seconds of Doom” (Horatio Humberton)
Oscar Schisgall, “Death Under Glass” (Ed Graham)
Fred MacIsaac, “Ghost City Set-Up” (Rambler Murphy)
profile and letter from MacIsaac appear n p. 123
[updated with original art 8/14/25, cover updated 11/12/25]