~ Raymond Chandler, “Killer in the Rain”, unnamed LA PI, 1st person, first book appearance in the anthology Killer in the Rain (Hammish Hamilton, UK hardcover, 3/26/64, US edition by Houghton Mifflin, 1964), various paperback editions, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 4th of 11 stories in BM [Chandler would “cannibalize” this story for The Big Sleep – note the totem with the camera lens.]
~ George Harmon Coxe, “Murder Picture”, 7th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 7th of 31 stories in BM
~ George Alden Edson, “Hot Lead”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Winged Lead”, ‘Bald Pete’, character’s only appearance in BM, 84th of 99 stories in BM
~ Eustace Hale Ball, “The Old Gray Mouse”, prison setting, last of 13 stories in BM
~ S. Omar Barker, “The Way of the Westerner”, ‘Pecos McKain; modern Western’, 1st of 4 stories in BM
~ Katherine Brocklebank, “White Talons”, 2nd of 4 with ‘Tex of Border Service in Tia Juana; Tex is a woman!’ , reprinted in White Talons: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Tex of the Border Service (Steeger, 2023), 5th of 7 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “One Crook to Another”, 24th of 73 Ed Jenkins, 2nd of 2 parts with ‘Big Bill Delano & gang war’, 37th of 99 stories in BM
~ Dashiell Hammett, “Black Honeymoon”, 3rd of 4 Continental Op stories that will go together to make up The Dain Curse (Knopf hc, 1929), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), 38th of 51 stories in BM
~ Anderson McCully, “The Rajah’s Bracelet”, ‘crime involving a group of socially prominent people’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Carl L. Martin, “The Discard”, Deputy Lon Havens, Drew County, Bayou country, 4th of 6 in BM
~ Marion Scott, “Poison Enters the Manse”, ‘1st-person narrator & kidnapping’, last of 3 by herself, 17 stories with Earl Scott in BM as a couple
~ Edward Parrish Ware, “The Border Buckoes”, ‘Kid Shelley, 1st-person narrator’, 8th of 9 stories in BM
~ W.T. Ballard, “In Dead Man’s Alley”, 10th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 10th of 43 stories in BM
~ Eugene Cunningham, “Room Service”, last of 5 with Cleve Corby, 11th of 14 stories in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “The Eyes Have It”, ‘last William’s caper [of 53 though Hagemann lists 54] in BM (wherein he had appeared ‘exclusively’), CJD not to pub. in BM until Mar 1938’, reprinted in If Death is Respectable: The Collected Hard-boiled Stories of Race Williams, v.4 (Altus, 2018), 66th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Hot Cash”, 59th of 73 Ed Jenkins, as Bob Sabin, 83rd of 99 stories in BM
~ Herbert Koehl, “See See Drops In”, ‘C.C. Cane, private eye, 1st person narrator‘, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Law and Disorder”, 10th of 11 with Dal Prentice, Magna City police dick, ‘one tough guy’, title used again in April 1941 issue, not the same story, 13th of 50 appearances in BM
~ Eustace Hale Ball, “The Footprints of Doom”, 7th with ‘the Scarlet Fox, last of the series’, 11th of 13 stories in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “Action! Action!” 2nd of 2 with Three-Gun Terry Mack, 1st-person narrator, 8th of 71 appearances in BM. The Price of a Dime: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Ben Shaley (Steeger Books, 2021).
~ Henry W. Fisher, “Executioners I Have Met”, ‘5tht of 6 ‘true’ articles with various subtitles’
~ Charles M. Green [pseud. of Erle Stanley Gardner], “The Serpent’s Coils”, ‘A Daytime Story’, 2nd of 3 stories under this name
~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Tenth Clew”, the Op [5th of 25], ‘see p. 127 for letter from DH on character in story, Creda Dexter‘, [Hammett’s first time appearing on the cover], reprinted in The Return of the Continental Op (Dell mapback, 1947), reprinted in City Sleuths and Tough Guys (Houghton Miflin, 1989), reprinted in City Sleuths and Tough Guys (Houghton Miflin, 1989), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), reprinted in Zigzags of Treachery: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Continental Op, Vol. 1 (Steeger, 2023), 9th of 51 stories in BM
~ Francis James, “The Sand Devil”, Prentice, Harvard-trained criminologist turned policeman with Police Chief Shannon, 3rd of 4 parts, 12th of 20 appearances in BM
~ Harold Freeman Miners, “Topango Catches a Track”, 2nd of 4 with ‘Topanga John, ancient desert rat’, 2nd of 5 stories in BM
~ Herman Petersen, “When a Wizard Woos”, ‘short-short; Wamaba, wizard in New Hebrides‘, 15th of 20 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “The Mole”, 22nd of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 23rd of 49 total articles in BM
~ Pearce Thorne, “A Jury of His Peers”, ‘brief-brief’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Edward Parrish Ware, “’Gangway!’”, ‘1st-person narrator; set in Arkansas, complete with dialect; mule skinner’, 2nd of 9 stories in BM
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