May 1936 – premiere issue of only three published
cover art by Howard Sherman
Tag: frederick c. davis
August 1939 issue ~ cover art by Edgar A. Whitney
cover art by Edgar A. Whitney
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~ Frederick C. Davis, “All Roads Closed”, ‘kidnapping & amnesia’, 9th of 16 stories in BM
~ Mindret Lord, “The Tattooed Tramp”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Hay Time”, ‘11th (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 38th of 50 appearances in BM
~ Lawrence Treat, “Swampers’ Gold”, ‘pirate treasure’, 4th of 5 stories in BM
~ Edward S. Williams, “Bloody Answers”, ‘Corporal John Harmon, State Trooper, narrator’, 5th of 8 appearances in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Men Must Die”, 12th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
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March 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “With Soul So Dead”
Frederick C. Davis, “Nine Toes Up!”
Frank Huepper, “Plight of the Pallbearer’s Honey” (Merrick)
H.Q. Masur, “Meet Me at the Morgue”
John N. Polito, “Better Off Buries”
Charles Ingerman, “The Photogenic Corpse”
Frank Nash, “Murder Static”
September 1936 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer
cover art by Malvin Singer
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John Lawrence, “The Corpse That Didn’t Die” (Drago of HQ Dept)
Leslie T. White, “Ashes of the Living” (Ted Naughton, arson dick)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Vanishing Venus” (Carter Cold, MD)
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Into Thin Air” (Kip Lacey)
William E. Barrett, “A Man’s Last Hours” (Blue Barrel)
October 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Frederick C. Davis, “Clinic for Corpses” (Bill Brent)
Norbert Davis, “Charity Begins at Homicide” (Max Latin)
C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Beef to the Heels” (Colonel Kaspir)
H.S.M. Kemp, “Between 11:00 and 11:15”
G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “There’s One in Every Graveyard”
Richard Dermody, “Painless Operation”
September 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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T.T. Flynn, “Saratoga Slay-Ride” (Mr. Maddox)
Frederick C. Davis, “Poison on Her Lips” (Keyhole Kerry)
Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Talking Eyes”
Jan Dana, “Storm Signal” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Denslow M. Dade, “Judgment Seat”
January 1937 issue ~ cover art by William Luberoff
October 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Frederick C. Davis, “Thirteen Shrouds” (Thackeray Hackett)
G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Feather in Your Coffin” (Jeffrey Wren)
Ted Stratton, “Hickory, Dickory Death” (Tom Morgan)
Ed Schmid, “A Likely Story”
John D. MacDonald, “Female of the Species”
August 1941 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
June 1936 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Frederick Nebel, “Murder by Mail” (Cardigan)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” (Martin Lane)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Circle” (Needle Mike)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Queen’s Headsman” (Carter Cole)
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Corpse in Seat 2” (Kip Lacey)
“Murder by Mail” was reprinted in Hard-Boiled Dames (St. Martin’s, 1986) and The Complete Cases of Cardigan (Altus Press, 2011)
“The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action (Carroll & Graff, 2001)
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