Tag: private eye

August 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

August 1948 issue

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cover art by Norman Saunders

Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams’ Double Date”

Paula Elliott, “Salt on a Siren’s Trail” (Boden)

John D. MacDonald, “Cavaliers Make Good Corpse”

Don James, “Quick Buck – Quick Kill”

Roderick Lull, “Gentleman’s Vengeance”

Ted Stratton, “Butterfly’s Bier”

[updated 5/11/25]

March 1942 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

March 1942

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cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Robert Reeves, “Over a Barrel” (Bookie Barnes)

John K. Butler, “The Corpse That Couldn’t Keep Cool” (Steve Midnight)

Norbert Davis, “Have One on the House ” (Bail Bond Dodd)

C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Pressure Island” (Colonel Kaspir)

Jan Dana, “Corpse of a Different Killer” (Acme Indemnity Op)

July 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

July 1950

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cover art by Norman Saunders

~ Charles J. Beckman, “Satan’s Step-Daughter”, cop Mike O’Connell, only story in BM

~ Harmon Bellamy, “Shutterbug’s Long Shot”, only story in BM

~ Owen Couey, “Bring Your Own Body”, only story in BM

~ Westcott D. Gouldner, “All Work and No Slay”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ John D. MacDonald, “Jukebox Jungle”, last of 6 stories in BM

~ Robert Martin, “Lost in the Shrouds”, 5th of 6 stories with ’Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective’, 7th of 8 stories in BM

~ Hank Searls, “Nice Girls Don’t Murder”, ‘Pete Butler, San Francisco private eye’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Robert Turner, “Nine Kills to Paradise”, 2nd of 4 stories in BM

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[post updated 6/1/24]

February 1929 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

February 1929 issue

cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

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~ Tom Curry, “The Taste of Blood”, 16th of 23 with Macnamara (Mac), NYPD 1st grade dick, ‘small-time crook develops into killer’, 27th of 39stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Bracelets for Two”, 25th of 73 stories with Ed Jenkins, with his wife Helen Chadwick, 38th of 99 stories in BM

~ Dashiell Hammett, “Black Riddle”, last of 4 Continental Op stories that will go together to make up The Dain Curse (Knopf hc, 1929), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), 39th of 51 stories in BM

~ Carl L. Martin, “Still Buzzards”, Deputy Lon Havens, Drew County, Bayou country, and friends in the delta, 5th of 6 in BM

~ Earl and Marion Scott, “Brewed at Benetti’s”, 1st of 6 stories with ‘Phil Craleigh, once brilliant lawyer, now a drunk, given to bouts of reform’, 4th of 17 stories in BM as a couple

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “On the Spot”, ‘Gary Greer; 1st (of 9) in the Laughing Dead series, presented as separate stories rather than conventional serial; pub. As Five (1931) under the pseudonym of Temple Field’, 26th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]. Reprinted in Laughing Death (Steeger Books, 2021).

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[updated 6/4/24]