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December 15, 1934 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

December 15, 1934 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

Frederick Nebel, “Leave it to Cardigan”

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Suicide House” (Small, Weston & Burke)

T.T. Flynn, “The Red Wizard” (Izzy O’Shea)

Carroll John Daly, “Excuse to Kill” (Clay Holt)

Donald Barr Chidsey, “Model T”

W.W. Van Dale, “Old Alibi” (Dave Anderson)

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October 15, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

October 15, 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

T.T. Flynn, “The Bell-Tower Terror” (Tony Grenville)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Crimson Scorpion” (Small, Weston & Burke)

Maxwell Hawkins, “Mr. Murder, MD” (Det. Henderson Coe)

Edward Parrish Ware, “Talons of Doom” (Commissioner Durant)

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[original art added 8/14/25]

December 1925 issue

December 1925 issue

~ Carroll John Daly, “Under Cover”, 1st of 2 parts, Race Williams, 11th of 53, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015), 19th of 71 appearances in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Triple Cross”, 5th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, 11th of 99 stories in BM

~ Joseph Gollomb, “Vienna’s Scholarly Detectives”, 5th of 6 articles

~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Gutting of Couffignal”, the Op [18th of 25], reprinted in The Return of the Continental Op (Dell mapback, 1947), reprinted in The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), 25th of 51 stories in BM

~ Donald MacGregor, “The House of Flashing Lights”, ‘concerning a vaudeville actor’, 7th of 10 stories

~ Benjamin Michalek, “The Invisible Order of the Living Dead”, “advertised as ‘strange and weird story’”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Charles Somerville, “Trapped”, 45th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 47th of 49 total articles in BM

~ J. Paul Suter, “The German Field Glass”, 8th of 15 stories with The Reverend McGregor Daunt, ‘clergyman by profession and detective by choice’, 11th of 19 appearances in BM