
May 1924 – first issue under this title
cover art by George William Mally

cover art by John Newton Howitt
better image than previously posted
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”

~ Carroll John Daly, “Dolly”, ‘1st person narrated mood piece…see p. 65 for editorial comment on story’, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015), 1st of 71 appearances in BM
~ David Dart, “Parker Proves His Theory”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Frederick C. Davis, “Floating Pearls”, 2nd of 16 stories in BM
~ Mary Browne, “Man, Woman and the Iceman”, sole appearance in BM
~ Henry W. Fisher, “The Truth About the Belgrade Assassinations”, ‘Murders of King Alexander & Queen Dragna of Serbia in 1903’, 1st of 7 long pieces in BM
~ Jack J. Gottlieb, “Ling the Lucky”, ‘Chinese gunman Ling Yar in San Francisco’, author’s 6th of 8 stories
~ Francis F. Gregory, “A Pile of Dust”, author’s sole story in BM
~ Francis James, “The Sand Devil”, ‘billed as “A Complete Novelette of Mystery and Action…This weird story should be ready by daylight”; debut of Prentice, Harvard-trained criminologist, turned policeman’, 1st of 20 appearances in BM
~ Murray Leinster (pseud. of Will F. Jenkins), “The Wallet That Weighed Too Much”, 5th of 7 stories in BM
~ Herman Petersen, “A Gold-Digger’s Man” and “Half Across the World”, 3rd and 4th of 20 stories in BM
~ Howard P. Rockey, “False Witness”, last of 5 stories in BM
~ Robert Russell, “Suspiciously Good Behavior”, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Robert E(mmett) Sherwood, “Film Thrillers”, film-review series, short –lived department, not indexed beyond this issue
~ Ward Sterling, “The Concrete Facts About Thomas Hancock”, last of 16 stories under this name in BM [44th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Harold Ward and H.W. Starr]
~ J. Ainsworth Wood, “Beyond”, ‘brief-brief’, author’s only appearance in BM
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