cover art by William Reusswig
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Oscar Schisgall, “Claws of the Condor” (Trent & Cadwell)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Framed in Guilt” (Dane Skarle)
Frederick Nebel, “The Murder Cure” (Cardigan)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Death Tunes In” (Det. Fitzgerald)
H.M. Appel, “The Body in the Crypt”
photos of Hawkins and Appel appear on pgs. 121-22
cover art by William Reusswig
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Oscar Schisgall, “The Death Scream”
Edward Parrish Ware, “The Skull of Judgment” (Det. Tug Norton)
J. Allan Dunn, “Out of the Night”
Frederick Nebel, “Phantom Fingers” (Cardigan)
Carroll John Daly, “The Curtain of Frost” (Vee Brown)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Murder Digs Its Grave”
May 15, 1923 issue
cover art by A. Rose
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~ Raymond J. Brown, “Phantom Bullets”, part 4 of 5, only work in BM
~ Jack Carlton, “Four Shots”, ‘cemetery tale’, 1of 2 stories in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “Three Gun Terry”, 1st of 2 with PI Terry Mack, 4th of 71 appearances in BM, reprinted in The Black Mask Boys (1985, Morrow). Reprinted in The Man in the Shadows: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Terry Mack (Steeger Books, 2021).
~ Carl Glick, “In the Grey Dawn”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Charles T. Jordan, “A Matter of Postage”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Herman Petersen, “In Mutiny”, ‘A weird thing’, 7th of 20 stories in BM
~ Robert Russell, “The Snake”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “The Clue in the Turf”, ‘“Honest John” Brunen, murder victim & Ellis Parker, detective’, 8th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 8th of 49 total articles in BM
~ Joe Taylor, “Ragged Seams”, 8th of 12 tales in ‘My Underworld’ series, 9th of 13th appearances in BM
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cover art attributed Malvin Singer, Walter Baumhofer, or Tom Lovell?
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Leslie T. White, “Matches in Hell” (Tod Naughton, arson dick)
Frederick Nebel, “The Sign of Murder” (Cardigan)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Silent Giantess” (Carter Cole, MD)
John Lawrence, “The Dope in the Death House (Colin Barr)
William E. Barrett, “The Blue Barrel” (Dean Culver, underworld gossip columnist)
cover art by John Newton Howitt
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Frederick Nebel, “Not So Tough” (Cardigan)
Fred MacIsaac, “Murder Reel” (Rambler Murphy)
J. Paul Suter, “Dead and Buried” (Horatio Humberton)
John Lawrence, “Guilty Party” (Cass Blue)
Edward S. Williams, “Seven Days Missing” (Det. Vance)
Dwight V. Babcock, “Pearls Without Publicity” (Kirk Daniels & Marcia Winters)
Anson Hatch, “Phantom Footsteps (Det. Larry Gilden)
March 1945 issue
cover art by Gloria Stoll
~ D.L. Champion, “Dead As in Blonde”, 17th of 26 with Rex Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 19th of 30 stories in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Murder Had a Little Lamb”, 20th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 23rd of 32 stories in BM
~ Merle Constiner, “Until the Undertaker Comes”, ‘Luther McGavock, private detective; he works Atherton Browne who heads a Memphis-based agency, 8th 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), 8th of 12 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Goon My Way?”, 4th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 9th of 23 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Get Your Own Corpse”, 12th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 19th of 27 stories in BM
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cover art by John Fleming Gould
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Carroll John Daly, “The Quick and the Dead” (Race Williams)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Ghoul Hangs High” (Keyhole Kerry)
D.L. Champion, “Lock the Death House Door!”
O.B. Myers, “Don’t Bet on Ghosts” (Doc Kincaid)
Mark Harper, “Frame for a Fall-Guy”
cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “The Evil Brand” (Val Easton)
Eric Taylor, “Scarlet Wake” (Jim Kern)
Frederick Nebel, “Pardon My Murder” (Cardigan)
Max Brand, “The Unnumbered Door” (Dave Clovelly)
Cornell Woolrich, “Preview of Death” [revised into “Murder Before the Camera”] (Det. Galbraith)
Sam Powell, “Blood Storm”
cover art by Gloria Stoll
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~ Thomson Burtis, “Deadline for Death”, ex-USA intelligence officer, now police Lt. Greg Sullivan, last of 6 appearances in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Murder Lode”, 24th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 27th of 32 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Flowers for Flanagan”, 10th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 15th of 23 stories in BM
~ Roland Phillips, “The Sentinel of Green Cove”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ William Rough, “Shoot If You Must”, ‘Ben Slabbe, p.i., who has his own agency; 2nd of 5 capers’ in BM
~ Ted Stratton, “Accounts Deceivable”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
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cover art by William Reusswig
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Westmoreland Gray, “The Beast in Black (Colin Windsor)
Carroll John Daly, “Murder at Midnight” (Vee Brown)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Forged Kill” (Dick Bentley)
Frederick Nebel, “Rogues’ Ransom” (Cardigan)
Oscar Schisgall, “The Hooded Terror” (Kent Carmiody)
Photo and profile of Gardner appeared on pgs. 123-24
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