August 1924 issue

August 1924 issue

~ Carroll John Daly, “Them That Lives by Their Guns”, 4th of 53 with Race Williams, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015) 12th of 71 appearances in BM

~ Dashiell Hammett, “Our Own Short Story Course”, letter to editor from DH, in part about BM’s rejection of “Women, Politics and Murder” [not counted as a ‘story’]

~ Irvin Mattick, “The Devil’s Rocket”, ‘closing act of Koerner’s ‘Greatest Show on Earth’, sole appearance in BM

~ Harold Freeman Miners, “Topango Reverses the Decision”, 3rd of 4 with ‘Topanga John, ancient desert rat’, 4th of 5 stories in BM

~ J. Fortune Reade, “The Windfall”, last of 3 stories in BM

~ Victor Shea, “Charity”, short-short, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Charles Somerville, “The Gun-Girl”, ‘Celia Cooney & 42 stick-ups in 4 ½ months’, 32nd of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 33rd of 49 total articles in BM

~ Edward Parrish Ware, “The Jungle Buzzard”, ‘Western’, 5th of 9 stories in BM

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