cover art by William Reusswig
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Carroll John Daly, “The Red Death” (Vee Brown)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Crook’s Carnival” (Dane Skarle)
Frederick Nebel, “The Candy Killer” (Cardigan)
John Lawrence, “The Bloodstone” (Cass Blue)
Howard E. Moran, “The Man in the Vault”
photo and profile of Carroll John Daly on pg., 123
January 1940 issue
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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T.T. Flynn, “Blood on the Book” (Mr. Maddox)
John Lawrence, “Death in the Side Pocket” (Broadway Squad)
Fred MacIsaac, “Object – Murder” (Rambler Murphy)
Philip Ketchem, “Hit-and-Run”
Hugh B. Cave, “Farewell With Trumpets” (Attendance Officer Coffey)
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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Raymond Chandler, “Bay City Blues” (John Dalmas)
Frederick C. Davis, “Double Deadline” (Keyhole Kerry)
John Lawrence, “Witness! Witness!” (Marquis of Broadway)
Baynard Kendrick, “Murder in A-3”, (Cliff Chandler)
Milton Lowe, “Too Smart to Live”
[cover updated 8/11/26]
cover art by William Reusswig
Carroll John Daly, “The Death Mask” (Vee Brown)
John Lawrence, “Murder in Miniature” (Sam Beckett)
Oscar Schisgall, “The Rattler Clue”
G.H. Coxe [George Harmon Coxe], “Slay Ride” (Det. Tom Flagg)
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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T.T. Flynn, “The Devil’s Derby” (Mr. Maddox)
Raymond Chandler, “Pearls are a Nuisance”
Fred MacIsaac, “Murder at the Beauty Show” (Rambler Murphy)
John Lawrence, “Old Wives’ Tale” (Marquis of Broadway)
Dale Clark, “Mercy Killing”
with a simple listing of his name on the cover, along with those of his colleagues, the editors could not have been aware that they were publishing one of Raymond Chandler’s masterpieces. The Big Sleep had been published just two months before, on February 6.
cover art by John Fleming Gould
Carroll John Daly, “Hell with the Lid Lifted” (Race Williams)
John Lawrence, “The Stars Said Murder” (Marquis of Broadway)
William Edward Hayes, “The Farraday Phantom”
O.B. Myers, “The Body in Booth One”
Wyatt Blassingame, “The Corpse Played Possum”
Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr., “Death Racket” (reprinted in 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, 1993)
cover art J. George Janes
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~ Frank Collinson, “Death on the Prairie” [Part 2 of 2] ~ article does not appear in the US issue
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Dark Alleys”, 66th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, this one a spy story with Ngat T’oy and Soo Hoo Duck (‘Soo has a name for Jenkins – Sai Yan Pang Yeu: Man of the West Who is My Friend’)
~ Bill Gerry, “Autopsies Tell” [spelling in Hagemann], 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Headless Angel”, 11th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, this one in a swamp
~ John Lawrence, “Death to Spare”, 5th of 14 stories in BM
~ Peter Paige, “I Guard Nudes”, ‘factual article; PP is guard at New York’s World’s Fair’, 1st of 12 stories in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Crime by the Forelock”, 13th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
