Tag: police procedural

January 1942 issue ~ cover art by Milton Luros

January 1942 issue

cover art by Milton Luros

better image than previously posted

~ Walter C. Brown, “The Parrot That Wouldn’t Talk”, 1st of 4 Sgt. Dennis O’Hara, aka Sah-Jin – NYC Chinatown squad

~ D.L. Champion, “What’s Money?”,  6th of 26 with Sackler, 7th of 30 stories in BM

~ C.P. Donnell, Jr., “5 Shrieks at 10”, 7th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps psychiatrist, 7th of 20 stories in BM

~ J. Lane Linkletter, “The Shadowy Line”, last of 3 stories in BM

~ Robert Reeves, “Bail Bait”, 6th of 10 with PI Cellini Smith, 8th of 12 appearances in BM

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November 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

November 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

~ John Bender, “Mayhem Patrol”, ‘prowl-car cop is 1st-person narrator’, 2nd and last story in BM

~ Richard Deming, “Five O’Clock Shroud”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st-person narrator, 5th of 6 stories in BM

~ William Campbell Gault, “Dead –End for Delia”, last of 9 stories in BM

~ Richard E. Glendinning, “Die, Gypsy, Die!”, ‘Lt. Oscar Daniels, homicide’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Albert Simmons, “Disc-Jockey Dirge”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Robert Turner, “Hell Is What You Make It”, 3rd of 4 stories in BM

~ Cornell Woolrich, “Of Time and Murder”, ‘reprint; not from BM; orig. pub., Detective Fiction Weekly, 15 Mar 1941’, 23rd of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM

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[updated 3/1/26]

July 1941 issue ~ cover art by Raphael DeSoto

July 1941 issue

cover art by Raphael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

~ Cleve F. Adams, “Nobody Loves Cops”, ‘Engelhardt & Dewey, Car 97, LA’, 5th of 6 stories in BM

~ W.T. Ballard, “Not in the Script”, 24th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 37th of 43 stories in BM

~ Wyatt Blassingame, “The Bishop and the Tinkling Belle”, 4th of 6 stories with The Bishop, political writer on a Southern newspaper, 60ish and peg-legged, ‘young Eddie narrates’, 6th of 8 stories in BM

~ Jim Kjelgaard, “Curse of the Beaver”, ‘again, the wilderness’, 4th of 6 stories in BM

~ H.H. Stinson, “Calling All Hearses”, 10th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 16th of 27 stories in BM

~ C.G. Tahney, [pseud of Charles Green, not to be confused with Charles M. Green], “Murder in Ten Easy Lessons”, Nickie, aka ‘Sherlock in short pants’, 2nd of 5 stories in BM

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December 1924 issue

December 1924 issue

~ Thomas Ewing Dabney, “The Drug of Ullua”, ‘Hard-Boiled Smith in Latin America’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Without No Reindeer”, 2nd of 10 Bob Larkin stories, 3rd of 99 stories in BM

~ Robert Lee Heiser, “The Norris Case”, ‘The Manhunters, for this series see chiefly under Charles Somerville’

~ Francis James, “The Green Enigma”, Prentice, Harvard-trained criminologist turned policeman with Police Chief Shannon, 2nd of 2 parts, issue also includes letter from the author with a small photo, 18th of 20 appearances in BM

~ Donald MacGregor, “The One-Dollar Bandit”, 2nd of 10 stories

~ William Rollins, Jr., “Dead Men of the Marshes”, 2nd of 3 stories with Jack Darrow, 16-year-old hero, ‘double murder’, 9th of 23 stories in BM

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[cover updated 1/3/26]