~ John Baer, “Have A Smoke?”, 20th of 24 stories in BM
~ George Briggs, “By His Own Hand –“, 2nd of 2 BM stories
~ T.B. Burt, “Red Hot”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Frederick Ames Coates, “The Accident”, 4th of 5 stories in BM
~ J.S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher, “Exterior to the Evidence”, 4th of 5 parts, ‘serial re-run of novel 1st pub in London (1920) with same title’, 4th of 6 appearances in BM
~ Jack J. Gottlieb, “Crimsoned Baubles”, 4th of 8 stories in BM
~ Harry C. Hervey, Jr., “The Devil at the Helm”, ‘A Complete Novelette’, last of 8 appearances in BM
~ George B. Jenkins, Jr., “Two Faultless Crimes”, 4th of 5 stories in BM
~ Lloyd Lonergan, “In the Grip of the Everglades”, 8th and final story in BM
~ Fred B. Mann, “An Affair of Honor”, ‘short-short’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Howard P. Rockey, “When Lightning Strikes”, 2nd of 5 stories in BM
~ J.J. Stagg, “Post-Mortem Murder”, 9th of 11 stories in BM
~ Harold Ward, “The Mystery of the Mary Ann”, 24th of 29 stories under this name in BM [39th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]
~Eustace Hale Ball & Earl Derby, “Dead Men Do Tell!”, ‘The First of the Black Mask Daytime Stories – not to be read at night by people with weak nerves.” EHB’s debut in BM
~ Carl Clausen, “The Careful Alibi”, ‘Complete Novelette’, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Frederick Ames Coates, “Bottled Judgment”, last of 5 stories in BM
~ Peter Condet, “The Indorsed Check”, ‘baseball background’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Thomas Ewing Dabney, “Tom Shepherd and the Rat”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Marie Eisenbrandt, “The Breaking Point”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ John Hanlon, “A Shred of Yellow Paper, ‘short-short, less than a half page‘, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Roy L. McCardell, “A Million A Year”, 1st of 4 parts, 1st of 5 appearances in BM
~ J.R. McCarthy, “Payment As Promised”, ‘short-short’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ John McColl, “But She Looked Lovely”, ‘poem’, 1st of 3 works in BM
~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “The Goat”, 13th of 29 stories in BM
~ Herman Petersen, “Shark-Bait”, ‘short-short‘, 5th of 20 stories in BM
~ A. Rose, “A Substitute for Blood”, ‘story illus. by author who also designed cover of issue’, author’s sole story in BM
~ Joe Taylor, “The Life of a Hold-Up Man”, ‘1st (of 12) tales in ‘My Underworld’ series; JT is advertised as ‘ex-automobile bandit’ with 15 years’ experience in crime; early on, listed as fact; later, as fiction; see p. 40 for photo-portrait of JT’, 1st of 13th appearances in BM
~ Sally Dixon Wright, “The House on the Dunes”, author’s only appearance in BM
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