private eye – SMB Noir

September 1928 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft

September 1928 issue

cover art by Fred Craft

~ William Donald Bray, “The Red Mackinaw”, ‘mining yarn’, 2^nd 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’, 16^th of 39 stories in BM

~ Carroll John Daly, “The Snarl of the Beast”, 21^st 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”, 1^st of 3 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Where the Buzzards Circle”, 4^th 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’, 1^st 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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January 1936 issue ~ cover art by Walter. Baumhofer

January 1936 issue

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”

Lament for a Lousy Lover x 7

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

1969 Signet

Dig That Crazy Grave x 3 + 1

1961 Gold Medal edition – cover art by Barye Phillips

1971 Fawcett reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

better image than previously posted

1972 Five Star edition

November 1932 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

November 1932 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

better image than previously posted

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

February 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

February 1940 issue

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”

August 1931 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

August 1931 issue

cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

somewhat better image than previously posted

~ 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, 15^th 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]

August 1928 issue ~ cover art by H.C. Murphy

August 1928 issue

cover art by H.C. Murphy

better image than previously posted

~ Tom Curry, “The Master”, 7^th and last DeVrite, with Mac, 26^th of 39 stories in BM

~ Carroll John Daly, “Rough Stuff”, 25^th of 53,‘Race Williams vs. The Hidden Hand; Pt. 3 of 5 loosely organized 5-pt. serial’, reprinted in The Snarl of the Beast: The Collected Hard-boiled Stories of Race Williams, v.2 (Altus, 2016), 37th of 71 appearances in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Fangs of Fate”, 5^th of 7 Black Barr, 33rd of 99 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Hell to Pay”, ‘Chicago hood; 1^st -person narrator’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 12 of 67 stories in BM

~ Stephen Payne, “Night-Riding Ruddy”, ‘Western; with Ruddy Ingersoll‘, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Lester Reynard, “Ritzie Gets Clever”, ‘Western; Deputy ‘Happy’ Collins & girl, Ritzie’, 1^st of 5 stories in BM

~ Everett H. Tipton, “El Tigre Was Bad”, ‘Bobby Warren, reporter, in Juárez (Chihuahua)’, 6th of 7 stories in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “High Death”, ‘Mac, Ben Greed; 3rd of 6 in Border Brand series’, reprinted in Border Brand (Steeger, 2024), 23rd of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

1954 Pennant reissue – cover art by Mitchell Hooks

1952 Mill hardcover

1954 Pennant paperback reissue

cover art by Mitchell Hooks

better image than previously posted

January 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

January 1943 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

~ Merle Constiner, “Why Meddle with Murder?”, ‘Luther McGavock, private detective; he works Atherton Browne who heads a Memphis-based agency, 3rd of 11 of the McG stories; usually rural setting’, reprinted in Let the Dead Alone: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Luther McGavock (Steeger, 2020), 3^rd of 12 stories in BM

~ George Harmon Coxe, “Blood on the Lens”, part 1 of 3 of Murder for Two (novel published 1943), 25th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 29th of 31 stories in BM

~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Don’t Stand Under the Blackjack Tree”, 12th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps, 12^th of 20 stories in BM

~ Alan Farley [pseudonym of Mrs. W. Lee Herrington], “Buttered on Both Sides”, 2^nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Tom Marvin, “Bag o’Bones”, ‘1^st person narrator is a 23-year-old small town sheriff’, 1^st of 3 stories