December 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

December 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Carroll John Daly, “The Strange Case of Iva Grey” (Connelly)

Cleve F. Adams, “Murder While You Wait” (Conner O’Melveny)

John Lawrence, “Nothing for Christmas” (Marquis of Broadway)

Merle Costiner, “You’re in My Way (The Dean)

Fletcher D. Slater, “Red Light” (Eddie West)

July 1941 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1941 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Norbert Davis, “Watch Me Kill You!” (Max Latin)

James A. Kirch, “The Murder Master”

John K. Butler, “Dead Man’s Alibi” (Steve Midnight)

Cleve F. Adams, “Forty Pains” (O’Melveny and Dugan)

O.B. Myers, “The Wild Man of Wall Street”

cover art by George Geygan

George Geygan (American, 20th Century)
Dig Me A Grave by John Spain (Bantam, 1951)
Oil on canvas, 22 x 15-1/2 inches (55.9 x 39.4 cm)
Signed lower right: geygan

pseudonym of Cleve F. Adams

1942 Dutton hardcover

first book published under this pen name

1st of two with private eye Bill Rye

July 1941 issue ~ cover art by Raphael DeSoto

July 1941 issue

cover art by Raphael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

~ Cleve F. Adams, “Nobody Loves Cops”, ‘Engelhardt & Dewey, Car 97, LA’, 5th of 6 stories in BM

~ W.T. Ballard, “Not in the Script”, 24th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 37th of 43 stories in BM

~ Wyatt Blassingame, “The Bishop and the Tinkling Belle”, 4th of 6 stories with The Bishop, political writer on a Southern newspaper, 60ish and peg-legged, ‘young Eddie narrates’, 6th of 8 stories in BM

~ Jim Kjelgaard, “Curse of the Beaver”, ‘again, the wilderness’, 4th of 6 stories in BM

~ H.H. Stinson, “Calling All Hearses”, 10th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 16th of 27 stories in BM

~ C.G. Tahney, [pseud of Charles Green, not to be confused with Charles M. Green], “Murder in Ten Easy Lessons”, Nickie, aka ‘Sherlock in short pants’, 2nd of 5 stories in BM

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September 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

September 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

~ Cleve Adams, “That Certain Feeling”, ‘Engelhardt & Dewey, Car 97, LA setting’, 2nd of 6 stories in BM

~ W.T. Ballard, “Pictures for Murder”, 22nd of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 34th of 43 stories in BM

~ William E. Brandon, “Danny, Once the Rat”, ‘police-stoolie & Nazi spies’, 3rd of 7 stories in BM

~ Dale Clark, “Killer in the Wind”, 2nd of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 4th of 32 stories in BM

~ John Lawrence, “Death in the Pluperfect”, 1st of 2 stories with ‘Ace McGuire, Broadway squad, 1st-person narrator’, 7th of 14 stories in BM

~ Robert Reeves, “Dog Eat Dog”, Cellini Smith and RR’s debut, 1st of 3 parts that will be published as the novel No Love Lost in 1941, reprinted in Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith (Steeger, 2020), 1st of 12 appearances in BM

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