April 1932 issue ~ 6th issue
cover art by William Reusswig
J. Allan Dunn, “The Fire Fiend”
Carroll John Daly, “The Call to Kill” (Vee Brown)
Frederick Nebel, “Murder on the Loose” (Cardigan)
John Lawrence, “The Scarlet Comet” (Paul Bryant, PI)
Norman H. White, Jr., “Buoy of Doom” (Benton Ellwell)
profile and photo of Lawrence on pg. 122
profile and photo of White on pg. 123
7th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam
1948 Dell reissue – cover art by Gerald Gregg
better image than previously posed
1953 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Stanley
1963 Dell reissue – cover art by Ron Lesser
1966 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett
cover art by J. W. Schlaikjer
better image than previously posted
~ Galen C. Colin, “Wrong Font Brands”, ‘Pica Slim, tramp printer’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “Murder by Mail”, 38th of 53 with Race Williams, ‘vs. Bull Lowery’, 50th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “The Man in White”, 2nd of 6 parts in the ‘Rainbow Diamonds’ sequence that take Jo Gar from Manila to San Francisco, 11th of 24 Gar stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)
~ Grimes Hill (pseud. of Frederick Lewis Nebel), “The Kill”, 1st of 2 stories in this issue by the author, 1st of 2 stories under this name in BM, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014),
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Junk”, 13th of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy ‘fighting river pirates’, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kenney, v.2 (Altus, 2013), 30 of 67 Nebel stories in BM
~ James P. Olsen, “Who Knows?”, 5th of 6 Western stories in BM
~ Joseph T. Shaw, “Derelict”, 2nd of 4-part serialization of his 1930 novel, ‘murder, romance and disaster on a deserted ocean liner’, 3rd of 9 fiction pieces in BM
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1954 Dodd Mead hardcover
1956 Bantam reissue
6th in the series with Philadelphia private eye Carney Wilde, though this particular book is set in Mississippi
cover art by John Newton Howitt
better image than previously posted
“Read ‘Em and Weep” (Cardigan) by Frederick Nebel
“The Smoking Corpse” (Edward Delane, lawyer) by Erle Stanley Gardner
“The Duchess of Death” (Jones & Jones) by Maxwell Hawkins
“Hot Money” (Johnny Cass) by R.D. Torrey
“Zero Hour” (Willy Hansen) by Anson Hatch
also includes letter from Carroll John Daly announcing new radio program featuring his character Vee Brown
1947 Curl release with this title
1948 Quinn release as Death About Face
Canadian 1951 Harlequin edition
cover art by George Shane
this the 1953 Ace Double reissue with original title
1958 Dell release as The Fatal Foursome
1st Johnny Liddell novel
cover art by John Fleming Gould
better image than previously posted
Carroll John Daly, “The White-Headed Corpse” (Race Williams)
Michael Sutton, “The Devil’s Portrait”
Jan Dana, “Too Week to Kill” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Dale Clark, “The Short and Merry One”
Roger Torrey, “Fire Test”
Maurice Beam, “Mind Over Matter”
Robert K. Adams, “Curtain Call”
D.L. Champion, “Dumb Dick”
cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “The Caleso Murders”, 1st story by RFW in this issue, 8th of 24 Jo Gar stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Racketeers’ Reef”, last of 3 with Rio Kennedy of the Customs Service in Santo Domingo, 20th of 39 stories in BM
~ Horace McCoy, “The Mailed Fist”, 8th of 14 Frost stories ’Capt. Jerry Frost, Texas (Air) Ranger & Stepsons have a go at ‘The Big Shot’, 9th of 17 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “The Red-Hots”, 2nd of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 27 of 67 stories in BM
~ James P. Olsen, “Honor of the Show”, ‘deformed sideshow owner, Price Eco, and murder’, 3rd of 6 Western stories in BM
~ Bertrand W(illiam) Sinclair, “Rope’s End”, ‘Western; Bill Stokes’, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Murder in the Ring”, ‘boxing, gamblers, racketeers, with Primo-Carnera-like boxer’; reprinted in May ’51 issue, 2nd story in this issue, 44th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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