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April 1946 issue ~ cover art by Samuel Cherry

April 1946 issue

cover art by Samuel Cherry

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D.L. Champion, “No Place Like Homicide” (Mariano Mercado)

Julius Long, “The Needle and the Hood” (C.D. Mort)

John Knox, “Home is Where the Hearse Is”

Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Double” (Doc Pierce)

Roland Phillips, “Murder Rides a Broomstick”

A. Boyd Correll, “Lethal Legacy”

April 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

April 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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T.T. Flynn, “Five Doomed Men” (Larry Davenport)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Death’s Doorway” (Phil ‘Go Get ‘Em’ Garver)

Frederick Nebel, “Heir to Murder” (Cardigan)

Fred MacIsaac, “Alias Mr. Smith” (Rambler Murphy)

September 1949 issue

September 1949

cover art attributed to Samuel Cherry

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December 1931 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

December 1931 issue

cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

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~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “The Javanese Mask”, 1^st of 2 stories in this issue by RFW, Jo Gar, 17^th of 24 Gar stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Strictly Personal”, 39th of 73 Ed Jenkins, ‘Jenkins’ return after death of his wife, Helen, which had broken him; out of hospital & in Chinatown with Lui Sing Fong’, [patriarchal master of Chinatown], last of 3 connected stories (7/1931 and 9/1931), 56th of 99 stories in BM

~ Ed Lybeck, “Leaded Ink”, ’debut of Francis St. Xavier Harrigan, reporter on Leader’, 1^st of 4 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Some Die Young”, 16th of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kenney, v.2 (Altus, 2013), 37 of 67 stories in BM

~ Henry Wallace Phillips, “For Sale, The Golden Queen”, ‘Western; Agamemnon Jones & Hy, 1^st-person narrator, Golden Queen is a gold mine’, 7^th of 8 with Red Saunders, 11th of 12 stories in BM

~ Stewart Stirling, (possible pseud. of Stewart Sterling?), “600 to 1”, 5^th of 8 stories with ‘Johnny Hi Gear, a.k.a. K-5, Undercover Agent’ with ‘King Collis, Negro policy king; racial slurs’

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Unfair Exchange”, ‘Alan Van Cleve, wealthy sportsman, man-about-town, 5th (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’, 2^nd story in this issue, 53rd of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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