cover art by William Reusswig
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Oscar Schisgall, “The Death Scream”
Edward Parrish Ware, “The Skull of Judgment” (Det. Tug Norton)
J. Allan Dunn, “Out of the Night”
Frederick Nebel, “Phantom Fingers” (Cardigan)
Carroll John Daly, “The Curtain of Frost” (Vee Brown)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Murder Digs Its Grave”
cover art by William Reusswig
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Carroll John Daly, “As Midnight Strikes” (Vee Brown)
J. Allan Dunn, “The Saffron Shadow” (Fang Li)
Frederick Nebel, “The Dead Don’t Die” (Cardigan)
John Lawrence, “The Torso Trap” (Sam Beckett)
cover art attributed Malvin Singer, Walter Baumhofer, or Tom Lovell?
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Leslie T. White, “Matches in Hell” (Tod Naughton, arson dick)
Frederick Nebel, “The Sign of Murder” (Cardigan)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Silent Giantess” (Carter Cole, MD)
John Lawrence, “The Dope in the Death House (Colin Barr)
William E. Barrett, “The Blue Barrel” (Dean Culver, underworld gossip columnist)
cover art by John Newton Howitt
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Frederick Nebel, “Not So Tough” (Cardigan)
Fred MacIsaac, “Murder Reel” (Rambler Murphy)
J. Paul Suter, “Dead and Buried” (Horatio Humberton)
John Lawrence, “Guilty Party” (Cass Blue)
Edward S. Williams, “Seven Days Missing” (Det. Vance)
Dwight V. Babcock, “Pearls Without Publicity” (Kirk Daniels & Marcia Winters)
Anson Hatch, “Phantom Footsteps (Det. Larry Gilden)
cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “The Evil Brand” (Val Easton)
Eric Taylor, “Scarlet Wake” (Jim Kern)
Frederick Nebel, “Pardon My Murder” (Cardigan)
Max Brand, “The Unnumbered Door” (Dave Clovelly)
Cornell Woolrich, “Preview of Death” [revised into “Murder Before the Camera”] (Det. Galbraith)
Sam Powell, “Blood Storm”
cover art by William Reusswig
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Westmoreland Gray, “The Beast in Black (Colin Windsor)
Carroll John Daly, “Murder at Midnight” (Vee Brown)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Forged Kill” (Dick Bentley)
Frederick Nebel, “Rogues’ Ransom” (Cardigan)
Oscar Schisgall, “The Hooded Terror” (Kent Carmiody)
Photo and profile of Gardner appeared on pgs. 123-24
January 1928 issue
cover art by Fred Craft
~ Louis Victor Eytinge, “When Fingerprints Lied”, ‘Paul Prentiss, former pete-man (safe blower)’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Westmoreland Gray, “Guns of Silence”, ‘Vic Cammack, reporter, & Jerry the Yegg, crook, vs. bandits’, last of 3 stories in BM
~ Dashiell Hammett, “Dynamite”, 3rd of 4 Continental Op stories that will go together to make up Red Harvest (Knopf hc, 1929), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), 34th of 51 stories in BM
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “The Faith o’ MacGown”, 1st of 3 with Rio Kennedy of the Customs Service in Santo Domingo, 11th of 39 stories in BM
~ Carl L. Martin, “Pore Pickin’s”, Deputy Lon Havens, Drew County, Bayou country, ‘bank robbery & Mississippi River flood, dialect used’, 2nd of 6 in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “The Penalty of the Code”, ‘the code of silence’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 10 of 67 stories in BM
~ William S. Newell, “A Man Reforms”, ‘Louse’ Eller, a punk criminal, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Stephen Payne, “The Fifth Loop”, ‘Western‘, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ L.R. Sherman, “The Man Who Would Not Quit”, ‘Far North’, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “The Sky’s the Limit”, last of 7 Chuck Reddington story; ‘airplanes & machineguns’, 17th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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April 1932 issue ~ 6th issue
cover art by William Reusswig
J. Allan Dunn, “The Fire Fiend”
Carroll John Daly, “The Call to Kill” (Vee Brown)
Frederick Nebel, “Murder on the Loose” (Cardigan)
John Lawrence, “The Scarlet Comet” (Paul Bryant, PI)
Norman H. White, Jr., “Buoy of Doom” (Benton Ellwell)
profile and photo of Lawrence on pg. 122
profile and photo of White on pg. 123
cover art by J. W. Schlaikjer
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~ Galen C. Colin, “Wrong Font Brands”, ‘Pica Slim, tramp printer’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “Murder by Mail”, 38th of 53 with Race Williams, ‘vs. Bull Lowery’, 50th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “The Man in White”, 2nd of 6 parts in the ‘Rainbow Diamonds’ sequence that take Jo Gar from Manila to San Francisco, 11th of 24 Gar stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)
~ Grimes Hill (pseud. of Frederick Lewis Nebel), “The Kill”, 1st of 2 stories in this issue by the author, 1st of 2 stories under this name in BM, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014),
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Junk”, 13th of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy ‘fighting river pirates’, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kenney, v.2 (Altus, 2013), 30 of 67 Nebel stories in BM
~ James P. Olsen, “Who Knows?”, 5th of 6 Western stories in BM
~ Joseph T. Shaw, “Derelict”, 2nd of 4-part serialization of his 1930 novel, ‘murder, romance and disaster on a deserted ocean liner’, 3rd of 9 fiction pieces in BM
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cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “The Caleso Murders”, 1st story by RFW in this issue, 8th of 24 Jo Gar stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Racketeers’ Reef”, last of 3 with Rio Kennedy of the Customs Service in Santo Domingo, 20th of 39 stories in BM
~ Horace McCoy, “The Mailed Fist”, 8th of 14 Frost stories ’Capt. Jerry Frost, Texas (Air) Ranger & Stepsons have a go at ‘The Big Shot’, 9th of 17 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “The Red-Hots”, 2nd of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 27 of 67 stories in BM
~ James P. Olsen, “Honor of the Show”, ‘deformed sideshow owner, Price Eco, and murder’, 3rd of 6 Western stories in BM
~ Bertrand W(illiam) Sinclair, “Rope’s End”, ‘Western; Bill Stokes’, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Murder in the Ring”, ‘boxing, gamblers, racketeers, with Primo-Carnera-like boxer’; reprinted in May ’51 issue, 2nd story in this issue, 44th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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