cover art by F.R. Glass
Tag: erle stanley gardner
The Case of the Lucky Legs x 19 + 1
`1934 Morrow hardcover, Gardner’s third Perry Mason mystery novel
1935 First National picture – Warren William as Perry Mason
1941 Pocket reissue – cover art by Pierre Martinot
1945 World Publishing/Tower edition
Feature Books #49 Perry Mason (David McKay, 1946) Condition: VG+. Perry Mason in “The Case of the Lucky Legs.” Vernon Greene art
1952 Morrow Collector’s Edition hardcover reissue – cover by Charles Lofgren
1953 Guild reissue from the UK
better image than previously posted
1959 Cardinal reissue – cover art by John Fernie
1960 Great Pan reissue from the UK – cover art by Sam Peffer
better image than previously posted
1963 Consul reissue from the UK
1967 Sphere reissue from the UK – cover illustration by Bill Botten
June 25, 1932 issue ~ cover art by Lejaren Hiller
December 1932 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig
cover art by William Reusswig
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T.T. Flynn, “The Black Doctor” (Val Easton, Secret Service)
Frederick Nebel, “A Truck Load of Diamonds” (Cardigan)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Marked Money” (Dane Skarle)
Richard J. Credicott, “The Three Horrible Heads” (Anthony Fletcher)
Joseph Mulvaney, “Smart Like a Fox” (Oscar Fox)
The Case of the Grinning Gorilla x 13 + 1
1958 Heinemann hardcover edition in the UK
1956 Pocket reissue – cover design by Milton Herder
cover photo of Suzy Parker
1961 Great Pan reissue – cover art by Pat Owen
April 29, 1965 title card for CBS episode
cover art by Darcy reused from Demars paperback
1973 Mayflower reissue from the UK
November 15, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig
cover art by William Reusswig
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T.T. Flynn, “The Jade Joss” (Val Easton v. Black Doctor)
Russ Meservey, “The Swamp Lake Horrors” (Link Nace)
Frederick Nebel, “Murder a la Carte” (Cardigan)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Cross-Stitch Killer” (Paul Pry)
Photo and profile of Russ Meservey appeared on pg. 123
Cats Prowl at Night x 9
1943 William Morrow and Co., first edition
1949 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg
1961 Corgi reissue from Australia
1961 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
September 1939 UK edition ~ cover art J. George Janes
cover art J. George Janes
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~ Frank Collinson, “Death on the Prairie” [Part 2 of 2] ~ article does not appear in the US issue
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Dark Alleys”, 66th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, this one a spy story with Ngat T’oy and Soo Hoo Duck (‘Soo has a name for Jenkins – Sai Yan Pang Yeu: Man of the West Who is My Friend’)
~ Bill Gerry, “Autopsies Tell” [spelling in Hagemann], 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Headless Angel”, 11th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, this one in a swamp
~ John Lawrence, “Death to Spare”, 5th of 14 stories in BM
~ Peter Paige, “I Guard Nudes”, ‘factual article; PP is guard at New York’s World’s Fair’, 1st of 12 stories in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Crime by the Forelock”, 13th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
January 1931 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
January 1931 issue
cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
~ Carroll John Daly, “’The Flame’ and Race Williams”, 41st of 53 with RW, last of 3 parts, ‘pub.as The Third Murderer (1931)’, reprinted in Shooting out of Turn: The Collected Hard-boiled Stories of Race Williams, v.3 (Altus, 2017), 53rd of 71 appearances in BM
~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “Diamonds of Death”, last of 6 parts in the ‘Rainbow Diamonds’ sequence that take Jo Gar from Manila to San Francisco, 15th of 24 Gar stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Hairy Hands”, 36th of 73 with EJ, ‘The “Hairy Hands” reach for Ed Jenkins; see p. 45 for statement on ESG’s knowledge of Chinese language & people’, 53rd of 99 stories in BM
~ Paul Evan Lehman, “Lead Medicine”, Western, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Spare the Rod”, 5th of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 33 of 67 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “The Sky Club Affair”, ‘Alan Van Cleve, wealthy sportsman, man-about-town, 1st (of 6) segment in The Skyline Murders series; printed as separate stories rather than conventional serial’; pub. as Killer’s Carnival (1932) under pseudonym of Temple Field’, 50th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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[post corrected 7/2/26]
March 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
~ George Harmon Coxe, “Blood on the Lens”, part 3 of 3 of Murder for Two (novel published 1943), last of 27 stories with Flashgun Casey, last of 31 stories in BM
~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Conspiracy in Sunlight”, ‘Military Intelligence; set in WWII England’, 13th of 20 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Incredible Mister Smith”, 72nd of 73 Ed Jenkins in Chinatown with Soo Hoo Duck, Ngat T’oy, 98th of 99 stories in BM
~ Philip Ketchum, “Coffin Number Three”, ‘death of an Army officer; WWII’, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Henry Norton, “Slay, Fiddle, Slay”, ‘Steve Wiacheck, Polish-American worker’, 3rd of 6 stories in BM
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