February 1935
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Arthur Leo Zagat, “Monster at Play” (listed as “Monsters at Play” on the cover”
Frances Bragg Middleton, “Blood on Its Paws”
Wyatt Blassingame, “The House of Vanished Brides”
E. G. Morris, “Vampires Can’t Die!“
Bruce Bryan, “Beyond Death’s Thin Veil”
Chandler H. Whipple, “The Son of Darkness”
James Duncan, “They Dance—and Die!”
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
~ Dwight V. Babcock, “Death Goes Free”, ‘G-man Chuck Thompson’, 2nd of 7 CT stories, 7th of 21 stories in BM
~ Paul Cain, “Chinaman’s Chance”, Johnny Gay, Hollywood reporter, reprinted in The Complete Slayers (2011 Centipede Press), 14th of 17 stories in BM
~ James Duncan, “Runaround Murder”, last of 3 with Ivor Small – investigations, “He was fat without being fat enough to gain a livelihood as a professional fat man”, 3rd of 10 stories in BM
~ Big announcement that Erle Stanley Gardner & Ed Jenkins return in the next issue
~ Sinclair Gluck, “Double for Danger”, ‘Ted Murray, reporter in Hollywood, 1st-person narrator’, only appearance in BM
~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “Ticketed for Death”, ‘13th (of 25) Jerry Tracy capers, columnist on the (NYC) Planet, ‘mixer with poor and rich, the crooked and the straight, trailer of trouble and happiness’, reprinted in Murder Maze: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jerry Tracy, vol.2 (Steeger 2022),14th of 26 stories in BM
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cover art by John Drew
~ Dwight V. Babcock, “Murder on the Side”, ‘unemployed reporter, 1st-person narrator’, 12th of 21 stories in BM
~ W.T. Ballard, “Whipsawed”, 17th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 23rd of 43 stories in BM
~ James Francis Bonnell, “Address Unknown”, short-short, only appearance in BM
~ Paul Cain, “Dutch Treat”, ‘emeralds’, reprinted in The Complete Slayers (2011 Centipede Press), last of 17 stories in BM
~ Lester Dent, “Angelfish”, 2nd Oscar Sale story, last story in BM, reprinted in The Hardboiled Dicks (1965), and The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977), last of 2 stories in BM. Reprinted in Luck: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Oscar Sail (Steeger Books, 2021).
~ James Duncan, “Thoroughbred”, ‘Jerry Breton 1st-grade dick, & Florida Racing Commission’, 5th of 10 stories in BM
~ E.G. Morris, “Panic”, ‘petty crook’s panic’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “The Irish Have It”, ‘2nd (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’, 23rd of 50 appearances in BM
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cover art by Fred Craft
~ Jack Bertin, “Rider in the Night”, last of 5 with Chip Huard, last of 6 stories in BM
~ George Harmon Coxe, “Earned Reward”, 10th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 10th of 31 stories in BM
~ James Duncan, “Crook Bait”, 2nd of 3 with ‘fat man’/investigator Ivor Small
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Ghost of a Chance”, last of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 58 of 67 stories in BM
~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “Death By Arrangement”, “Max Ward, ‘the famous little Broadway ticket broker’, erroneously titled ‘Death by Appointment’ on table of contents”, only non-Jerry Tracy story, 10th of 26 stories in BM
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