cover art by William Reusswig
T.T. Flynn, “The House of Vanishing Men” (Jerry Prince)
Frederick Nebel, “Dead Man’s Folly” (Cardigan)
George Allan Moffatt, “The Crimson Heart Murders” (Jim Finn)
Westmoreland Gray, “The Cowled Horror” (Colin Windsor)
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cover art by William Reusswig
T.T. Flynn, “The Black Phantom” (Det. Dan O’Shea)
Frederick Nebel, “Doorway to Danger” (Cardigan)
John Lawrence, “The Corpse in Cage Two” (Sam Beckett)
MacKinlay Kantor, “The Shadow Point”
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cover art by Walter Baumhofer
Frederick Nebel, “The Dead Die Twice” (Cardigan)
James P. Olsen, “Island of Skulls”
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Crimson Claws” (Carter Cole, MD)
Charles Alexander, “The Half-Corpse Horrors”
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Cobra” (Needle Mark)
[Nebel story mis-titled on cover – correct is “Die”, not “Died”]
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cover art by Fred Craft
~ Jack Bertin, “Rider in the Night”, last of 5 with Chip Huard, last of 6 stories in BM
~ George Harmon Coxe, “Earned Reward”, 10th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 10th of 31 stories in BM
~ James Duncan, “Crook Bait”, 2nd of 3 with ‘fat man’/investigator Ivor Small
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Ghost of a Chance”, last of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 58 of 67 stories in BM
~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “Death By Arrangement”, “Max Ward, ‘the famous little Broadway ticket broker’, erroneously titled ‘Death by Appointment’ on table of contents”, only non-Jerry Tracy story, 10th of 26 stories in BM
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cover art by Walter Baumhofer
Frederick Nebel, “Leave it to Cardigan”
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Suicide House” (Small, Weston & Burke)
T.T. Flynn, “The Red Wizard” (Izzy O’Shea)
Carroll John Daly, “Excuse to Kill” (Clay Holt)
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Model T”
W.W. Van Dale, “Old Alibi” (Dave Anderson)
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cover art by Henry C. Murphy
~ Carroll John Daly, “Half-Breed”, 16th of 53 with ‘Race Williams among the Oklahoma oil-rich Indians’, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015), 24th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Money, Marbles and Chalk”, 11th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘still a ‘crook’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 19th of 99 stories in BM
~ (Charles John) Cutcliffe Hyne, “The Guns for Cuba”, 1st of 8 yarns with Captain Kettle, author’s debut in BM
~ Don Livingston, “The Awakening of Bash Langley”, ‘modern-day Western’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Grain to Grain”, ‘Corson & Gleason, ex-gangster and ex-boxer turned dicks’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 2 of 67 stories
~ Lt. Col. J.H. [John Henry] Patterson, D.S.O., “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo”, 2nd of 7 serialized parts of this ex-British Army officer’s account of building a railway in Kenya, 1898-1899; book published in 1927
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Delivered Goods”, ‘aviator hero; see headnote for data on RFW’, 7th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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