Tag: private eye

October 1930 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

October 1930 issue

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cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “Nagasaki Knives”, 2nd half of Jo Gar story, 7th of 24 stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “The Dark Pack”, ‘Western’, 19th of 39 stories in BM

~ James Howard Leveque, “Nigger Loon”, bayou tale, sole appearance in BM

~ James P. Olsen, “’Shot!’”, 1st of 6 Western stories in BM

~ Lester Reynard, “Ladies Love Diamonds”, ‘San Francisco setting’, last of 5 stories in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Death in a Bowl”, 2nd of 3 serialized parts, ‘Ben Jardinn, Hollywood eye, & murder in Hollywood Bowl’, ‘(originally titled The Maestro Murder)’, published in hardcover in 1931 by Knopf, 42nd of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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October 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1947 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Robert Martin, “Death Gives a Permanent Wave” (PI Jim Bennett)

D.L. Champion, “Slaying Room Only!”

John D. MacDonald, “Oh, Give Me a Hearse”

Charles Larson, “Covet and Kill”

Richard E. Glendinning, “Invitation to Hell”

Paula Elliot, “Murder is Too Personal“

Frank Ward, “Nightmare Alley”

January 1938 issue ~ cover art by Raymond S. Pease

January 1938 issue

cover art by Raymond S. Pease

~ Dwight V. Babcock, “The Widow Regrets”, 1st of 7 Beeker (“Beek”) stories, 15th of 21 stories in BM

~ Thomas W. Duncan, “The Cat and the Corpse”, ‘Dan Macey’, author’s only story in BM

~ Steve Fisher, “No Gentleman Strangles His Wife”, ‘Kip I. Muldane, p.i. in Hawaiian’, 2nd of 9 stories in BM

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Blood in the Fog”, 31st of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, ‘Black Burton in London’, 38th of 39 stories in BM

~ Roger Torrey, “Relative Trouble”, ‘Shean Connell, private peep; last of 4 SC stories’, 32nd of 50 appearances in BM

~ Cornell Woolrich, “After-Dinner Story”, 9th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM

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[updated 1/26/26]

August 1939 issue

August 1939 issue

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Carroll John Daly, “Gangman ’s Gallows” (Race Williams)

Raymond Chandler, “Trouble is My Business ” (John Dalmas)

Edward Ronns, “Three Doors to Doom”

O.B. Myers, “Fire and Ice”

Hugh B. Cave, “Deal from the Bottom”

D.L. Champion, “Laughter in Hell”