Tag: private eye

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

December 1930 issue

cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “The Caleso Murders”, 1st story by RFW in this issue, 8th of 24 Jo Gar stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Racketeers’ Reef”, last of 3 with Rio Kennedy of the Customs Service in Santo Domingo, 20th of 39 stories in BM

~ Horace McCoy, “The Mailed Fist”, 8th of 14 Frost stories ’Capt. Jerry Frost, Texas (Air) Ranger & Stepsons have a go at ‘The Big Shot’, 9th of 17 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “The Red-Hots”, 2nd of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 27 of 67 stories in BM

~ James P. Olsen, “Honor of the Show”, ‘deformed sideshow owner, Price Eco, and murder’, 3rd of 6 Western stories in BM

~ Bertrand W(illiam) Sinclair, “Rope’s End”, ‘Western; Bill Stokes’, 1st of 3 stories in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Murder in the Ring”, ‘boxing, gamblers, racketeers, with Primo-Carnera-like boxer’; reprinted in May ’51 issue, 2nd story in this issue, 44th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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Guilty Bystander x 7 + 2

1947 Farrar Strauss hardcover

1947 Handi-Book digest

1948 Penguin/Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Jonas

1950 Film Classics

1954 Signet reissue – cover art by Saul Tepper

1956 Phantom reissue

1958 Signet reissue

Mitchell Hooks (American, 1923-2013)
Gouache on board, 30 x 18-1/4 inches (76.2 x 46.4 cm)
Initialed center right: MH

1963 Signet reissue

July 15, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

July 15, 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

T.T. Flynn, “Torture Tavern” (Val Easton vs. Black Doctor)

Ralph Oppenheim, “The Death Lady” (Glen Kelsey, PI)

Frederick Nebel, “Scrambled Murder” (Cardigan)

Edward Parrish Ware, “The Gallows Cure”

June 1941 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

June 1941 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

~ D.L. Champion, “Split Fee”, 4th of 26 with Sackler, 5th of 30 stories in BM

~ Dale Clark, “Hot Towels”, 5th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 7th of 32 stories in BM

~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Death Do Us Part”, 4th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps psychiatrist, 4th of 20 stories in BM

~ Robert Reeves, “The Cat with a Headache”, 5th of 10 with PI Cellini Smith, reprinted in Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith (Steeger, 2020), 6th of 12 appearances in BM

~ Stewart Sterling, “Over My Dead Body”, 4th of 9 stories with ‘Special Squad (Bomb & Forgery); see p.8 for note by SS on story’, 7th of 12 stories under this name in BM [Sterling and Stirling were pen names of Nathaniel Prentice Winchell, 20 total stories in BM]

~ Roger Torrey, “Snakes in the Grass”, ‘3rd of Bryant (4 stories), a regular U.S. Army man, who works in a CCC camp; 1st-person narrator’, ‘- in a Southern CCC camp’, 49th of 50 appearances in BM

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November 1941 Canadian issue

reprint of June 1941 US issue