July 1939 issue

July 1939 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould?

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D.L. Champion, “Cover the Corpse’s Eyes” (Insp. Allhoff)

Cornell Woolrich, “Charlie Won’t Be Home Tonight”

Sam Merwin, Jr., “Murder for Syndication”

Jan Dana, “The Second Loop” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Leslie T. White, “Me and My Shadow” (Omar MacKenzie)

July 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

July 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

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John K. Butler, “A Coffin for Two” (Rex Lonergan)

Leslie T. White, “Don’t Change Dames in the Middle of Murder”

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Card” (Needle Mike)

O.B. Myers, “You Can’t Trust a Corpse”

Maxwell Hawkins, “Forty Pounds of Flesh”

Norbert Davis, “Death Sings a Torch-Song” (Dennis Lee)

B.B. Fowler, “Avenging Angel”

Madelyn Ralph, “The Ghost in the Bottle”

May 1939 issue

May 1939 issue

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Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Killer-Diller”

Jan Dana, “Movable Alibi” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Leslie T. White, “Whole Hog or Nothing” (Sergeant Mackey)

O.B. Myers, “Cash on the Line”

Herbert Koehl, “Too Many Lefts”

Jackson Gregory, Jr., “Black is White”

October 1935 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

October 1935 issue

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

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~ W.T. Ballard, “You Never Know About Women”, 1st of 7 with ‘Red Drake, undercover investigator for the State Racing Commission, 1st-person narrator’, 15th of 43 stories in BM

~ George Harmon Coxe, “Mr. Casey Flashgun Murder”, 14th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 14th of 31 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Crash and Carry”, 61th of 73 stories with Ed Jenkins, ‘The Phantom Crook’, 86th of 99 stories in BM

~ Preston Grady, “Massacre”, ‘Ned price, p.i., in South Carolina, 1st-person  narrator; smuggling & Chinese villain.’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Leslie T. White, “The City of Hell”, ‘four honest cops “put the Indian sign on a city of graft”’, author’s sole appearance in BM

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October 1,1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

October 1, 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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“The Corpse Was Cold” by John Lawrence

“The Die in Flame” (Ned Grantley) by Oscar Schisgall

“Stairway of Shadows” (Capt. B.J. Brady) by Leslie T. White

“The Golden Grave” (Craig Kennedy) by Arthur B. Reeve

photo and profile of Arthur B. Reeve included

July 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1940 issue

T.T. Flynn, “The Bookie and the Blonde” (Mr. Maddox)

Leslie T. White, “One-Way Street”

Jan Dana, “The Murder Was a Pleasure” (Acme Indemnity Op)

John K. Butler, “The Man from Alcatraz” (Steve Midnight)

Hugh B. Cave, “He Didn’t Know Nothin’“ (Officer Coffey)

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April 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

April 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

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John K. Butler, “Gallows Ghost” (Tricky Enright)

John Lawrence, “The Corpse That Came to Call”

Leslie T. White, “Lullaby in Lead” (Duke Martindell)

Robert Sidney Bowen, “Dead Takes the Air” (Kip Lacey)

O.B. Myers, “The Black Room”

Malvin Singer, “She Found the Mutilated Forearm”