August 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

August 1935 issue

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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December 15, 1934 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

December 15, 1934 issue

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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November 1926 issue ~ cover art by H.C. Murphy

November 1926

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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June 1, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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cover art by Walter Baumhofer

Frederick Nebel, “A Couple of Quick Ones” (Cardigan)

Preston Grady, “Dead Man’s Chest” (Ross Paget)

John K. Butler, “The Corpse Parade” (Rex Lonergran)

John Lawrence, “Dangerous Dollars” (Cass Blue)

Richard Howells Watkins, “Hell’s Half Mile”

December 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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cover art by Walter Baumhofer

“The Curse of Cardigan” (PI Cardigan), Frederick Nebel

“Rapped in Cellophane” (Mark Hall), J. Allan Dunn

“Murder on the Mississippi” (Rambler Murphy), Fred MacIsaac

“The House of Sudden Sleep” (Leon Pell), Hugh B. Cave

“Dead on her Feet” (Det. Smith), Cornell Woolrich

“Blood Orchids” (Dade), O.B. Myers

April 1936 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

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cover art by Malvin Singer

Carroll John Daly, “Just Another Stiff” (Race Williams)

Fred MacIsaac, “Cat’s-Paw for Murder” (Rambler Murphy)

Frederick Nebel, “Lead Poison” (Cardigan)

Cornell Woolrich, “The Living Lie Down with the Dead”

Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Flying Diamond”