Tag: gambling fiction

May 1951 issue

May 1951 issue

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~ Millard H. Cannon, “For Customers Only”, short-short, only appearance in BM

~ Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Horses Don’t Count”, last of 6 appearances in BM

~ Richard Deming, “Pay Up or Die”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st person narrator, last of 6 stories, author’s last appearance in BM

~ Charles Larson, “Eye for an Eye”, reprint, not from BM

~ Hank Napheys, “Homicide Furlough”, ‘reprint, not from BM’

~ Robert H. Rohde, “Millions of Cops”, ‘reprint, not from BM’

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Murder in the Ring”, ‘boxing, gamblers, racketeers, with Primo-Carnera-like boxer; reprinted from Dec ’30 issue

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June 1926 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft

June 1926 issue

cover art by Fred Craft

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~Tom Curry, “The House of Jewels”, 8th of 39 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Forget ‘Em All”, 9th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘The Phantom Crook’, 16th of 99 stories in BM

~ Cecil F. Hilleary, “The Lost Bullet”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Frederick Jackson, “Risky Whiskey”, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Black Burton Sits In”, 2nd of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 2nd of 39 stories in BM

~ Colin Martins, “Ho-o-o-o for Tango!”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Ralph E. Renaud, “Telling the Cock-eyed World”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Henry S. Whitehead, “Gahd Laff”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Jenny Meets the Boys”, ‘border air-story’, 3rd of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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Spill the Jackpot x 8

1941 Morrow hardcover
4th in the Bertha Cool & Donald Lam series

1946 Dell mapback

cover art by George A. Frederiksen/ mapback by Ruth Belew

1951 British Pocket paperback edition

cover art by Roland Davies

1959 Panther edition from Britain – cover art by Ley Kenton

1952. Dell reissue – cover art by Carl Bobertz

1957 Dell reissue – cover illustration by by Push-Pin Studios

April 1962 Dell reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett

1967 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett

March 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

March 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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T.T. Flynn, “Hayseed Homicide”

Dale Clark, “Tag! You’re Dead” (Plates O’Rion)

D.L. Champion, “Go Home and Die! (Insp. Allhoff)

Cornell Woolrich, “What the Well-Dressed Corpse Will Wear”

Julius Long, “Accidents Will Happen”

Swing Low Swing Dead x 3

April 1964 Belmont paperback original

13th with Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg

cover art by Victor Kalin

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1969 Belmont reissue

1972 Five Star reissue

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