cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Frederick Nebel, “Hell of Wheels” (Cardigan)
William Edward Hayes, “Silk Eastward” (Tommy Berwick)
Dwight V. Babcock, “Private Murder Party” (Det. Steve Manning)
Eric Taylor, “The Phantom from the Fog”
O.B. Myers, “Red-Hot Ruby” (Grant Aires)
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
~ William Donald Bray, “Death Dances”, last of 4 Britt Hardsley stories, of the Carneal Construction Co., ‘man of murder and mystery’, 1st person narrator, 11th of 12 stories in BM
~ George Harmon Coxe, “Mixed Drinks”, 13th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 13th of 31 stories in BM
~ James Duncan, “Cook Bait”, 2nd of 3 with Ivor Small – investigations, “He was fat without being fat enough to gain a livelihood as a professional fat man”, 2nd of 10 stories in BM
~ John Lawrence, “Broadway Babe”, ‘King Carrick, ex G-man‘, 2nd of 14 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Die-Hard”, 31st of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy, v.4 (Altus, 2013), 60 of 67 stories in BM
~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “Behind the Column”, ‘12th (of 25) Jerry Tracy capers, columnist on the (NYC) Planet, ‘mixer with poor and rich, the crooked and the straight, trailer of trouble and happiness’, reprinted in Murder Maze: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jerry Tracy, vol.2 (Steeger 2022),13th of 26 stories in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Dangerous Crossing”, ‘3rd (of 5) of George Killeen, private ‘tec in L.A., & 1st-person narrator; with Lieutenant McFee, Homicide’, ‘Killeen plays at “framing the framer”’, 18th of 50 appearances in BM
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cover art by Fred Craft
~ Katherine Brocklebank, “Snowbirds”, 2nd of 7 stories in BM
~ Tom Curry, “Jungle Thieves”, ‘Venezuela & Federal Agents on the chase’, 11th of 39 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “This Way Out”, 14th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, “First [of 3] of Ed Jenkins’ thrilling adventures with ‘The Girl with the Mole’” [consecutive issues], reprinted in Dead Men’s Letters (1990, Carroll & Graf anthology of Jenkins stories), (title repeats 3/1937, but is different story), 23rd of 99 stories in BM
~ (Charles John) Cutcliffe Hyne, “The Escape”, 5th of 8 yarns with Captain Kettle
~ Don Livingston, “No Grandstand Play”, ‘Western‘, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “China Silk”, ‘introducing Buck Jason – booze runner extraordinary’, ‘1st of 3 with BJ’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 4 of 67 stories
~ Lt. Col. J.H. [John Henry] Patterson, D.S.O., “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo”, 6th of 7 serialized parts of this ex-British Army officer’s account of building a railway in Kenya, 1898-1899; book published in 1927
~ Riblew Reelhew, “The Robbing of Mind Tai Low”, ‘Chinatown character outwits crook’, 1st of 2 stories under this pseudonym, an anagram of Wilber Wheeler
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Sky-High Odds”, ‘3rd of 7 Chuck Reddington story; airplanes & machineguns’, 11th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
~ Erika Zastrow, “Joe’s Woman”, ‘in street-dialect’, 1st of 3 stories in BM
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(first copy of this title found in a dozen years of searching)
cover art by Fred Craft
~ William Donald Bray, “The Red Mackinaw”, ‘mining yarn’, 2nd of 12 stories in BM
~ Tom Curry, “Murder Chains”, part 1 of 2, ‘gangster yarn; John Furnel, alias The Grand Street Kid; see p. 128 for data on & photo of TC’, 16th of 39 stories in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “The Snarl of the Beast”, 21st of 53 with Race Williams, last of 4 part serial, published as a novel in 1927 as The Snarl of the Beast, reprinted in The Snarl of the Beast: The Collected Hard-boiled Stories of Race Williams, v.2 (Altus, 2016), 30th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Bob Du Soe, “The Kid on Number Twenty”, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Where the Buzzards Circle”, 4th of 7 Black Barr, 26th of 99 stories in BM
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Yellow Smoke”, 7th of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 9th of 39 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “A Grudge is a Grudge”, ‘among crooks, that is; police dick’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 8 of 67 stories in BM
~ Henry Wallace Phillips, “The Killing Nerve”, ‘Western’, 1st of 8 with Red Saunders, 3rd of 12 stories in BM
~ Erika Zastrow, “The Crook Who Wanted To Be Straight”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
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cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Carroll John Daly, “The Mark of the Raven” (Vee Brown)
Frederick Nebel, “Blood in the Dark” (Cardigan)
John K. Butler, “Seven Years Dead” (Tricky Enright)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Crazy Witness” (Carter Cole, MD)
Leo Stalnaker, “Black Widow’s Night”
Australian 1961 Horwitz paperback
Australian Long Story Magazine #19, Feb 1961
International Edition Series #25 1962
1967 Signet edition – cover art by Robert McGinnis
1968 NEL/Four Square – cover art by Robert McGinnis?
International Edition Series #72 1971
1961 Gold Medal edition – cover art by Barye Phillips
1971 Fawcett reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
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cover art by William Reusswig
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Carroll John Daly, “The Red Death” (Vee Brown)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Crook’s Carnival” (Dane Skarle)
Frederick Nebel, “The Candy Killer” (Cardigan)
John Lawrence, “The Bloodstone” (Cass Blue)
Howard E. Moran, “The Man in the Vault”
photo and profile of Carroll John Daly on pg., 123
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Carroll John Daly, “Cash for a Killer” (Race Williams)
Jan Dana, “One Vote for Murder” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Roger Torrey, “Lock, Stock and Barrel”
Norbert Davis, “Murder Down Deep” (William ‘Bail-Bond’ Dodd)
Leslie T. White, “Rough on Rats”
Riley Williams, “The Corpse with the Missing Finger”
cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
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~ Carroll John Daly, “’The Flame’ and Race Williams”, 41st of 53 with RW, last of 3 parts, ‘pub.as The Third Murderer (1931)’, reprinted in Shooting out of Turn: The Collected Hard-boiled Stories of Race Williams, v.3 (Altus, 2017), 53rd of 71 appearances in BM
~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “Diamonds of Death”, last of 6 parts in the ‘Rainbow Diamonds’ sequence that take Jo Gar from Manila to San Francisco, 15th of 24 Gar stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Hairy Hands”, 36th of 73 with EJ, ‘The “Hairy Hands” reach for Ed Jenkins; see p. 45 for statement on ESG’s knowledge of Chinese language & people’, 53rd of 99 stories in BM
~ Paul Evan Lehman, “Lead Medicine”, Western, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Spare the Rod”, 5th of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 33 of 67 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “The Sky Club Affair”, ‘Alan Van Cleve, wealthy sportsman, man-about-town, 1st (of 6) segment in The Skyline Murders series; printed as separate stories rather than conventional serial’; pub. as Killer’s Carnival (1932) under pseudonym of Temple Field’, 50th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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