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February 1935 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
April 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould
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.
March 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould
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)
September 1939 UK edition ~ cover art J. George Janes
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
October 1939 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
October 1939 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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John Lawrence, “Man Hunt” (Marquis of Broadway)
D.L. Champion, “Dead and Dumb” (Inspector Allhoff)
Sam Merwin, Jr., “Murder March of the Toy Soldiers”
Martin Labas, “The Devil’s Burden”
O.B. Myers, “Diamonds Can’t Swim”
March 1, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Leslie T. White, “The Crimson Counterfoil” (Duke Martindel)
John M. Gregory, “Track Racket” (Jim MacCauley)
John Lawrence, “A Burial is Arranged” (Cass Blue)
Russ Meservey, “The Fourth Pharaoh” (Pokerface)
Cornell Woolrich, “Murder in Wax” (Angelface)
O.B. Myers, “The Case of the Footless Corpse” (Breck)
April 1943 Canadian issue
August 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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D.L. Champion, “There was a Crooked Man – ” (Inspector Allhoff)
Norbert Davis, “This will Kill You!” (Bail-Bond Dodd)
John Lawrence, “The Death of the Party” (Marquis of Broadway)
Merle Constiner, “Strangler’s Kill” (The Dean)
O.B. Myers, “United We Fall”
June 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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John Lawrence, “Murder Must Go On!” (Marquis of Broadway)
Carl Clausen, “The Bell of Blackman’s Knob”
Cornell Woolrich, “Meet Me by the Mannequin”
D.L. Champion, “Turn in Your Badge!” (Insp. Allhoff)
Wyatt Blassingame, “The Coral Band”
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