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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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
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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”
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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
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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”
November 1929 issue, Joseph T. Shaw, editor
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cover painting by J.W. Schlaikjer
Frederick Nebel, “Hell-Smoke” (Capt. MacBride novelette)
Dashiell Hammett, “The Maltese Falcon” (part two of the serialized novel before publication as a novel – first appearance of this section- not even mentioned on the cover)
Earl and Marion Scott, “The Second Spartan”
Carroll John Daly, “The Silver Eagle” (Race Williams novelette)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Brass Tacks” (Ed Jenkins novelette)
Tom Curry, “The Man from Headquarters”
Henry Wallace Phillips, “The Demon in the Canyon”
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