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September 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
September 1940 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
~ Cleve Adams, “That Certain Feeling”, ‘Engelhardt & Dewey, Car 97, LA setting’, 2nd of 6 stories in BM
~ W.T. Ballard, “Pictures for Murder”, 22nd of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 34th of 43 stories in BM
~ William E. Brandon, “Danny, Once the Rat”, ‘police-stoolie & Nazi spies’, 3rd of 7 stories in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Killer in the Wind”, 2nd of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 4th of 32 stories in BM
~ John Lawrence, “Death in the Pluperfect”, 1st of 2 stories with ‘Ace McGuire, Broadway squad, 1st-person narrator’, 7th of 14 stories in BM
~ Robert Reeves, “Dog Eat Dog”, Cellini Smith and RR’s debut, 1st of 3 parts that will be published as the novel No Love Lost in 1941, reprinted in Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith (Steeger, 2020), 1st of 12 appearances in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
April 15, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig
cover art by William Reusswig
better image than previously posted
Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Dance of the Snakes” (Small, Weston & Burke)
Oscar Schisgall, “Fangs of the Wolf” (Doctor Dyme)
John Lawrence, “Portrait in Crimson” (Sam Beckett)
Robert Barbour Johnson, “The Cancer Devil”
Howard E. Morgan, “The Red Scarab” (Blaze Quent)
August 1942 Canadian issue
December 1937 issue ~ cover art by J. George Janes
cover art by J. George Janes
~ W.T. Ballard, “Only Proof Counts”, last of 7 with ‘Red Drake, undercover investigator for the State Racing Commission, 1st-person narrator’, 29th of 43 stories in BM
~ Norbert Davis, “Murder in Two Parts”, ‘Brent’, 7th of 13 stories in BM
~ Frank Gruber, “Death on Eagle’s Craig”, 3rd of 10 with ‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, reprinted in The Hardboiled Dicks (1965), reprinted in The Hardboiled Dicks (1965), 4th of 14 stories in BM
~ Eric Howard, “Copper, Have a Heart”, 4th of 6 story in BM
~ John Lawrence, “Club Fighter”, 1st of 2 stories with ‘Barron Hargraft & boxing in Detroit & NYC‘, 3rd of 14 stories in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Dusk to Dawn”, ‘Lew Stahl’, 8th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
February 1932 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig
August 1942 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
~ D.L. Champion, “Killer, Can You Spare a Dime?”, 9th of 26 with Rex Sackler, 10th of 30 stories in BM
~ Norbert Davis, “Bullets Don’t’ Bother Me”, ‘Sam Carey & Japanese agents in wartime San Francisco’, 11th of 13 stories in BM
~ C.P. Donnell, Jr., “Dead Ahead Lies Yesterday”, 10th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps [perhaps a prequel as Hagemann notes ‘psychiatrist-detective’ enters US Medical Corps], 10th of 20 stories in BM
~ John Lawrence, “Treasonable Facsimile”, 2nd of 2 stories with disbarred attorney, Larssen T. (Larceny) Kyne, 13th of 14 stories in BM
~ Peter Paige, “Death Is a Souvenir”, ’Captain Hammer (private eye), “one-man war department’” 11th of 12 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
February 1943 Canadian issue
February 1942 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
~ W.T. Ballard, “The Colt and the Killer”, 26th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 39th of 43 stories in BM
~ William E. Brandon, “Wake Up and Give!”, ‘skullduggery & a college bequest’, 4th of 7 stories in BM
~ John Lawrence, “Murder, Maestro, Please”, ‘Jamie Harrod, ‘Maestro of Swing’, 1st -person narrator, framed for murder; set in Detroit’, 11th of 14 stories in BM
~ Peter Paige, “The Night You Shot Hitler”, ’Murder of an RAF pilot in NYC’, 10th of 12 stories in BM
~ C.G. Tahney, [pseud of Charles Green, not to be confused with Charles M. Green], “And a Little Child Shall Bleed Them”, Nickie and Uncle Pat, 3rd of 5 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
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October 1936 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer
October 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer
October 1937 issue
cover art by Malvin Singer
Carroll John Daly, “Anyone’s Corpse” (Race Williams)
T.T. Flynn, “Burning Ice”
Fred MacIsaac, “Fall-Guy” (Rambler Murphy)
John Lawrence, “Escape Mechanism (Marquis of Broadway)
Cornell Woolrich, “Stuck with Murder”
Donald S. Aitken, “Two Heels Too Many” (Det. Pope)
[updated 11/13/25]
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