~ Raymond J. Brown, “Phantom Bullets”, part 2 of 5, only work in BM
~ Ray Cummings and Gabrielle [2nd wife], “Haunted”, only story by this pair in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “It’s All in the Game”, ‘1st-person narrator, preying on “leading lights of the underworld” e.g., Ed, The Killer’, 3rd of 71 appearances in BM
~ Drayton Dunster, “The Fruit of the Tomb”, ‘A Cemetery Tale’, 5th of 9 stories in BM
~ H.M. Hamilton, “Vanishing Gold”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “The Vengeance of the Dead”, 6th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 6th of 49 total articles in BM
~ Joe Taylor, “The Meanest Thief”, ‘brief-brief’, 7th piece of 13 tales in BM
~ Joe Taylor and G[eorge] W. Sutton, Jr., “Burnt Hands”, part 2 of 2 (subtitled, “A Splinter of Steel”), ‘GWS was then editor of BM’, 2nd of 2 appearances by this team in BM
~ Juliette Van, “At the Dragon’s Dip”, ‘Billed as “A Complete Double-Length Detective Mystery Novelette”’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Harold Ward, “The Turning of the Worm”, last of 29 stories under this name in BM [last of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]
~ J.A. Young, “The Meanest Thief”, ‘brief-brief’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~Eustace Hale Ball & Earl Derby, “Dead Men Do Tell!”, ‘The First of the Black Mask Daytime Stories – not to be read at night by people with weak nerves.” EHB’s debut in BM
~ Carl Clausen, “The Careful Alibi”, ‘Complete Novelette’, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Frederick Ames Coates, “Bottled Judgment”, last of 5 stories in BM
~ Peter Condet, “The Indorsed Check”, ‘baseball background’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Thomas Ewing Dabney, “Tom Shepherd and the Rat”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Marie Eisenbrandt, “The Breaking Point”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ John Hanlon, “A Shred of Yellow Paper, ‘short-short, less than a half page‘, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Roy L. McCardell, “A Million A Year”, 1st of 4 parts, 1st of 5 appearances in BM
~ J.R. McCarthy, “Payment As Promised”, ‘short-short’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ John McColl, “But She Looked Lovely”, ‘poem’, 1st of 3 works in BM
~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “The Goat”, 13th of 29 stories in BM
~ Herman Petersen, “Shark-Bait”, ‘short-short‘, 5th of 20 stories in BM
~ A. Rose, “A Substitute for Blood”, ‘story illus. by author who also designed cover of issue’, author’s sole story in BM
~ Joe Taylor, “The Life of a Hold-Up Man”, ‘1st (of 12) tales in ‘My Underworld’ series; JT is advertised as ‘ex-automobile bandit’ with 15 years’ experience in crime; early on, listed as fact; later, as fiction; see p. 40 for photo-portrait of JT’, 1st of 13th appearances in BM
~ Sally Dixon Wright, “The House on the Dunes”, author’s only appearance in BM
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