cover art by William Reusswig
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J. Paul Suter, “The Angel of the Damned” (Horatio Humberton)
T.T. Flynn, “Dead Man’s Lottery” (Danny Eagen)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Crippled Corpse” (Dick Bentley)
James A. Goldthwaite, “Murder in B Minor” (Jerry Conover)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Pipe Line of Peril (Sleepy O’Neill)
cover art by Fred Craft
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~Tom Curry, “The House of Jewels”, 8th of 39 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Forget ‘Em All”, 9th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘The Phantom Crook’, 16th of 99 stories in BM
~ Cecil F. Hilleary, “The Lost Bullet”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Frederick Jackson, “Risky Whiskey”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Black Burton Sits In”, 2nd of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 2nd of 39 stories in BM
~ Colin Martins, “Ho-o-o-o for Tango!”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Ralph E. Renaud, “Telling the Cock-eyed World”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Henry S. Whitehead, “Gahd Laff”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Jenny Meets the Boys”, ‘border air-story’, 3rd of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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cover art by William Reusswig
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Westmoreland Gray, “The Beast in Black (Colin Windsor)
Carroll John Daly, “Murder at Midnight” (Vee Brown)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Forged Kill” (Dick Bentley)
Frederick Nebel, “Rogues’ Ransom” (Cardigan)
Oscar Schisgall, “The Hooded Terror” (Kent Carmiody)
Photo and profile of Gardner appeared on pgs. 123-24
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cover art by O.K. Uzzell
~ John Nicholas Beffel, “Finger-Prints”, ‘article – can fingerprints be forged?; this prompts answer from Dashiell Hammett’, June 1925 issue, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Painless Extraction”, 3rd of 10, ‘Bob Larkin in Mexico’, 6th of 99 stories in BM
~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Scorched Face”, ‘the Op, called here ‘The Continental Sleuth’ by ed.’, [11th of 22], 16th of 45 stories in BM
~ Lillian W. Keenan, “The Lost Glove Needle”, ‘described as ‘shrewd detective work’”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “An Adventure in Diamonds”, 9th of 10 with ‘Captain Valentine, that ‘attractive European scalawag’, adventurer and rascal’, 25th of 29 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “The Tracking of a Fiend”, 40th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 41st of 49 total articles in BM
~ J. Paul Suter, “The Uncomfortable Buddha”, 5th of 15 stories with The Reverend McGregor Daunt, ‘clergyman by profession and detective by choice’, 8th of 19 appearances in BM
~ L. King Tichenor, “A Thousand Dollar Bill”, 1st of 5 stories in BM
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1941 Morrow hardcover
4th in the Bertha Cool & Donald Lam series
cover art by George A. Frederiksen/ mapback by Ruth Belew
1951 British Pocket paperback edition
cover art by Roland Davies
1959 Panther edition from Britain – cover art by Ley Kenton
1952. Dell reissue – cover art by Carl Bobertz
1957 Dell reissue – cover illustration by by Push-Pin Studios
April 1962 Dell reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett
1967 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett
cover art by William Reusswig
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Erle Stanley Gardner, “Time for Murder” (George Brokay)
John Lawrence, “The Scarlet Casket (Sam Beckett)
Leslie T. White, “The Zodiac Clue” (Bart Shane)
Jan Dana, “Panamint Oil”
George Alden Edson, “The Death Club” (Larry Sall)
cover art by Harry Stoner
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~ W.T. Ballard, “This is Murder”, 18th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 24th of 43 stories in BM
~ Hugh B. Cave, “Dead Dog”, ‘Pooch Hanley a cop who likes dogs’, 2nd of 9 stories in BM
~ James Duncan, “Double Trouble”, 1st of 5 stories with ‘The Parson, who lives on a ‘mythical’ (fictional?) isle, Cariba’, set in Havana, reprinted in Murder for Pennies: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Parson (Steeger, 2024), 6th of 10 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “This Way Out”, 64th Ed Jenkins ‘as Bob Sabin; with Ngat T’oy’, same title as 3/1927 but different story, 89th of 99 stories in BM
~ Eric Howard, “The Mugg from Frisco”, ‘Kelly, 1st person narrator & some shady politics’, 1st of 6 stories in BM
~ H. Randolph Peacock, “Dead Alibi”, 1st of 3 with Otto, department store dick, making ‘$40 a week at Klineman’s‘, ‘see p. 127 for word on HRP‘, 1st of 4 stories in BM
~ Cole Richards, “No Reprieve”, ‘short-short’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Always a Lady”, ‘Lieutenant Delehanty, a cop’, 26th of 50 appearances in BM
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