September 1927 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft

September 1927 issue

cover art by Fred Craft

~ Katherine Brocklebank, “Snowbirds”, 2nd of 7 stories in BM

~ Tom Curry, “Jungle Thieves”, ‘Venezuela & Federal Agents on the chase’, 11th of 39 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “This Way Out”, 14th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, “First [of 3] of Ed Jenkins’ thrilling adventures with ‘The Girl with the Mole’” [consecutive issues], reprinted in Dead Men’s Letters (1990, Carroll & Graf anthology of Jenkins stories), (title repeats 3/1937, but is different story), 23rd of 99 stories in BM

~ (Charles John) Cutcliffe Hyne, “The Escape”, 5th of 8 yarns with Captain Kettle

~ Don Livingston, “No Grandstand Play”, ‘Western‘, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “China Silk”, ‘introducing Buck Jason – booze runner extraordinary’, ‘1st of 3 with BJ’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 4 of 67 stories

~ Lt. Col. J.H. [John Henry] Patterson, D.S.O., “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo”, 6th of 7 serialized parts of this ex-British Army officer’s account of building a railway in Kenya, 1898-1899; book published in 1927

~ Riblew Reelhew, “The Robbing of Mind Tai Low”, ‘Chinatown character outwits crook’, 1st of 2 stories under this pseudonym, an anagram of Wilber Wheeler

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Sky-High Odds”, ‘3rd of 7 Chuck Reddington story; airplanes & machineguns’, 11th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

~ Erika Zastrow, “Joe’s Woman”, ‘in street-dialect’, 1st of 3 stories in BM

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(first copy of this title found in a dozen years of searching)