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February 15, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

February 15, 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Frederick C. Davis, “Blood from the Parrot” (Oke Oakley)

John  Lawrence, “The Barking Body” (Cass Blue)

T.T. Flynn, “House of Dread” (Jerry Prince)

William Edward Hayes, “Murder in the Private Car” (Det. Dan Howell)

Edward S. Williams, “Call It Suicide” (Det. Haldane)

December 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

December 1947 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Frederick C. Davis, “Open the Morgue, Richard!” (Thackeray Hackett)

Thorne Lee, “A Corpse Slept Here”

James Howard Leveque, “A Share in the Slaughter”

Mark Mallory, “Killer Take All”

Don James, “I’ll Never Slay Again”

Charles Larson, “Brat’s Brew o’Murder”

Robert Turner, “Crime Doesn’t Play”

December 1941 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

December 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

~ D.L. Champion, “The Brand of Abel”, ‘desert setting’, 3rd of 30 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Jade Sanctuary”, 68th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘reader points out discrepancy in this story in Feb ’41 issue, p. 29’, 95th of 100 appearances in BM

~ Eaton K. Goldthwaite, “The Veiled Vampire”, ‘Duke Brian & Franny Steinmetz, ‘ex-felons from Philly’, now private dicks, more or less, Brian narrates’, 3rd of 5 stories in BM

~ Harvey Howard, “Red Friday”, see 2/1940 for H.F. Howard: Hagemann says ‘entirely possible HH and HFH one and the same’

~ Jim Kjelgaard, “Backfire”, ‘short-short; wilderness setting’, 3rd of 6 stories in BM

~ Stewart Sterling, “Coat of Many Killers”, 2nd of 9 stories with ‘Special Squad (safe-and-loft)’, 5th of 12 stories under this name in BM [Sterling and Stirling were pen names of Nathaniel Prentice Winchell, 20 total stories in BM]

~ H.H. Stinson, “North of the Border”, 9th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 15th of 27 stories in BM

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August 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

August, 1940 issue

better image than previously posted

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

~ Wyatt Blassingame, “10,001 Motives for Murder”, 2nd of 6 stories with The Bishop, political writer on a Southern newspaper, 60ish and peg-legged, 4th of 8 stories in BM

~ George Harmon Coxe, “Case and the Blonde Wren”, 19th of 25 with Flashgun Casey; ‘Wren = Women’s Royal Naval Service officer’, 23rd of 29 stories in BM

~ G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Rats Breed Rats”, ‘Detective Sergeant Bill Teed, tough cop, & Pop Walter, sentimental reporter’, 1st of 8 stories in BM

~ Eaton K. Goldthwaite, “The Frame Didn’t Fit”, ‘Duke Brian & Franny Steinmetz, ‘ex-felons from Philly’, now private dicks, more or less, Brian narrates’, 1st of 5 stories in BM

~ John Graham, “Too Tough”, ‘Vic Smail, kidnapper’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Charles E. Jestings, “Jim Gregg: A Prison Poem”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Stewart Sterling (pseud. of Prentice Winchell), “Ten Carats of Lead”, 1st of 9 stories with ‘Special Squad (pawnshop detail), NYPD, & Det. Mike Hansard’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 4th of 12 stories

~ Roger Torrey, “Murder – For No Reason”, ‘debut of Bryant (4 stories), a regular U.S. Army man, who works in a CCC camp; 1st-person narrator’, 46th of 50 appearances in BM

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