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February 15, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

February 15, 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

better image than previously posted

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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