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~ Russell Bender, “Body-Guard to Death”, ‘Jake Connolly’, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Frederick C. Davis, “This Way to the Morgue”, 1st of 2 with reporter Murray Gifford, 5th of 16 stories in BM
~ Frank Gruber, “Forced Landing”, 6th of 10 with ‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, ‘Quade in Hollywood; see p.5 for letter from FG on Oliver Q.’, 9th of 14 stories in BM
~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “The Death Pool”, 7th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida
~ Roger Torrey, “Gardenia Kill”, ‘9th (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 36th of 50 appearances in BM
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~ Maurice Beam, “The White Lie”, ‘see p. 29 for letter from BM about story’, (thought to be possibly a pseud. of Robert Leslie Bellem), 5th of 7 stories under this name in BM
~ H.W. Guernsey, “The Last Pin”, ‘short-short’, last of 4 stories in BM
~ H.F. Howard, “The Corpse Takes a Wife”, see 12/1940 for Harvey Howard: Hagemann says ‘entirely possible HH and HFH one and the same’
~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Fisherman’s Luck”, 13th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, ‘Rice in South Florida’
~ Peter Paige, “Blackout!”, ‘spy story; set in Paris, early WWII‘, 4th of 12 stories in BM
~ William Tanquery, “Getting Maizie”, ‘Mac MacGrath & Jennie Komorawski, rival reporters’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Murder for Your Money”, ‘last (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 42nd of 50 appearances in BM
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cover art by J. George Janes
Hersey swastika: “The Symbol of Good Reading – A Hersey Magazine”

cover art by J. George Janes
~ W.T. Ballard, “Death in the Zoo”, 32nd of 43 stories in BM
~ Maurice Beam, “Death Swing”, ‘stunt fliers’,(thought to possibly be a pseud. of Robert Leslie Bellem), 2nd of 7 with this name in BM
~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “Framed for Hanging”, 28th of 29 stories in BM
~ Stewart Sterling (pseud. of Prentice Winchell), “Kill a Man Dead”, 2nd of 3 stories with Vince Mallie, 2nd of 12 stories
~ H.H. Stinson, “Murder Sweepstakes”, 7th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, ‘see pg. 7 for letter from HHS about O’H’, 12th of 27 stories in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Borrowed Crime”, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 11th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
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