cover art by William Reusswig
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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)
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
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cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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~ 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
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February 1943 Canadian issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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~ 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
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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)
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March 1, 1933 issue
cover art by William Reusswig
T.T. Flynn, “The Black Phantom” (Det. Dan O’Shea)
Frederick Nebel, “Doorway to Danger” (Cardigan)
John Lawrence, “The Corpse in Cage Two” (Sam Beckett)
MacKinlay Kantor, “The Shadow Point”
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June 1, 1934 issue
cover art by John Howitt
T.T. Flynn, “Murder in the Mud” (Rance Duane)
John Lawrence, “The Corpse Control” (Cass Blue)
Fred MacIsaac, “Go-Between” (Rambler Murphy)
R.D. Torrey, “A Death in the Family” (Johnny Carr)
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