
cover art by Rudolph Zirm

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The Editor, “The Coroner Takes Over”
Day Keene, “A Hearse of Another Color” [Silent Smith (The Silver Fox)]
Felix Graham, “Heil, Werewolf!“
William R. Cox, “Spades for the Dead” (Tom Kincaid)
Fredric Brown, “Satan One-and-a-Half”
William Brandon, “Nightmare House”
Russell Gray, “The Caricature Murders”

~ Carroll John Daly, “Dolly”, ‘1st person narrated mood piece…see p. 65 for editorial comment on story’, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015), 1st of 71 appearances in BM
~ David Dart, “Parker Proves His Theory”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Frederick C. Davis, “Floating Pearls”, 2nd of 16 stories in BM
~ Mary Browne, “Man, Woman and the Iceman”, sole appearance in BM
~ Henry W. Fisher, “The Truth About the Belgrade Assassinations”, ‘Murders of King Alexander & Queen Dragna of Serbia in 1903’, 1st of 7 long pieces in BM
~ Jack J. Gottlieb, “Ling the Lucky”, ‘Chinese gunman Ling Yar in San Francisco’, author’s 6th of 8 stories
~ Francis F. Gregory, “A Pile of Dust”, author’s sole story in BM
~ Francis James, “The Sand Devil”, ‘billed as “A Complete Novelette of Mystery and Action…This weird story should be ready by daylight”; debut of Prentice, Harvard-trained criminologist, turned policeman’, 1st of 20 appearances in BM
~ Murray Leinster (pseud. of Will F. Jenkins), “The Wallet That Weighed Too Much”, 5th of 7 stories in BM
~ Herman Petersen, “A Gold-Digger’s Man” and “Half Across the World”, 3rd and 4th of 20 stories in BM
~ Howard P. Rockey, “False Witness”, last of 5 stories in BM
~ Robert Russell, “Suspiciously Good Behavior”, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Robert E(mmett) Sherwood, “Film Thrillers”, film-review series, short –lived department, not indexed beyond this issue
~ Ward Sterling, “The Concrete Facts About Thomas Hancock”, last of 16 stories under this name in BM [44th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Harold Ward and H.W. Starr]
~ J. Ainsworth Wood, “Beyond”, ‘brief-brief’, author’s only appearance in BM
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December 1935 – second issue published
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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1953 Dell reissue – cover art by Bill George
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1964 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
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