Tag: paris fiction

January 1921 issue ~ cover art by Archie Gunn

January 1921 issue

cover art by Archie Gunn

~ John Baer, “The Murder of An Te-Hai”, ‘NYC’s Chinatown’, 1st of 24 stories in BM

~ Frank Blighton, “An Automatic Alibi”, ‘bank fraud; 1st-person narrator’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Hamilton Craigie, “The Pendulum of Fate”, 5th of 7 solo stories in BM

~ Eric A. Darling, “The Malachite Jar”, 4th of 5 stories in BM

~ Stephen H. Edwards, “Detective Alias Thief”, ‘con men outwit banker, et al., in a small Montana town’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Clinton [aka Charles] Harcourt, “The White Face at the Cellar Window”, 4tf of 6 stories in BM

~ James Edward Hungerford, “By Fast Freight”, embezzlement in and around San Francisco, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Julian Kilman, “Playing a Hunch”, ‘Dave Lacey, just out of prison’, 4th of 6 stories in BM

~ J.C. Kofoed, “The Puzzling Affair in the Rue Tilsit”, ‘Complete Novelette; fired NYC cop murdered in Paris’, 6th of 9 stories in BM

~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “The Plan That Was Outlined by Monahan”, ‘young dip, yegg, & wire man’, 7th of 29 stories in BM

~ Harold Ward, “While the Blizzard Raged”, ‘people marooned with a murderer, 1st-person narrator’, 10th of 29 stories under this name in BM [14th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]

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September 1925 issue ~ cover art by H.C. Murphy

September 1925 issue

better image (by a little) than previously posted

cover art by H.C. Murphy

~ Ray(mond) King, “T. McGuirk Lends a Helping Hand”, ‘13th of 14 McGuirk stories, billed as “the quaintest character in the Underworld” & honest, more of less’, 13th of 15 stories in BM

~ Joseph Gollomb, “The Man Who Stole a Palace”, ‘study of Parisian police methods’, 2nd of 6 articles

~ Glenn G. Gravatt, “The Million Dollar Robbery”, ‘The Manhunters; for this series, see chiefly under Charles Somerville,’ author’s only appearance in BM

~ Dashiell Hammett, “Corkscrew”, ‘The Op [12th of 22] in Arizona, billed as ‘A Western Detective Novelette’, reprinted in As Tough as They Come (Perma, 1951), 17th of 45 stories in BM

~ William La Varre, “The Golden Head”, ‘A Daytime Story’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Ralph E. Mooney, “Outside the World”, ‘attempted murder of an editor’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ L. King Tichenor, “A Just Price”, ‘The Senator’ [no other explanation], 4th of 5 stories in BM

~ Henry S. Whitehead, “The Gladstone Bag”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Valleau Wilkie, “The White Elephant”, ‘Billed as “A Last Minute Mystery”’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Jack Woodford, “Blank Fingers”, ‘article; fingerprints; cf. under John Nicholas Beffel’, May 1925 issue

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