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Merle Constiner, “The Affair of the Pharmacist’s Fudge” (The Dean)
Dale Clark, “Sing fro Your Shroud” (Plates O’Rion & Sal)
Francis K. Allan, “Death in Fool’s Disguise”
C.P. Donnel, Jr., The Flyin’ Icebox” (Colonel Kapir)
Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Treatment” (Doc Pierce)
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D.L. Champion, “The Day Nobody Died” (Inspector Allhoff)
Lawrence Treat, “Death’s Old Sweet Song” (Edward Asa Scott)
Julius Long, “The Corpse Belongs to Daddy”
Alan Farley, “Man’s Best Friend is His Murder”
Clyde Morehead, “The Remembering Skull”
Berna Morris, “Winter Violets”
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~ D.L. Champion, “The Brand of Abel”, ‘desert setting’, 3rd of 30 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Jade Sanctuary”, 68th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘reader points out discrepancy in this story in Feb ’41 issue, p. 29’, 95th of 100 appearances in BM
~ Eaton K. Goldthwaite, “The Veiled Vampire”, ‘Duke Brian & Franny Steinmetz, ‘ex-felons from Philly’, now private dicks, more or less, Brian narrates’, 3rd of 5 stories in BM
~ Harvey Howard, “Red Friday”, see 2/1940 for H.F. Howard: Hagemann says ‘entirely possible HH and HFH one and the same’
~ Jim Kjelgaard, “Backfire”, ‘short-short; wilderness setting’, 3rd of 6 stories in BM
~ Stewart Sterling, “Coat of Many Killers”, 2nd of 9 stories with ‘Special Squad (safe-and-loft)’, 5th of 12 stories under this name in BM [Sterling and Stirling were pen names of Nathaniel Prentice Winchell, 20 total stories in BM]
~ H.H. Stinson, “North of the Border”, 9th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 15th of 27 stories in BM
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“The Arm of Mother Manzoli” by Merle Constiner (with The Dean)
“The Big Four” by C.P. Donnel, Jr. (with Colonel Kaspir)
“Send Coffins for Seven” by Julius Long
“No Haunting Allowed” by G.T. Fleming-Roberts
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~ Cleve F. Adams, “Nobody Loves Cops”, ‘Engelhardt & Dewey, Car 97, LA’, 5th of 6 stories in BM
~ W.T. Ballard, “Not in the Script”, 24th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 37th of 43 stories in BM
~ Wyatt Blassingame, “The Bishop and the Tinkling Belle”, 4th of 6 stories with The Bishop, political writer on a Southern newspaper, 60ish and peg-legged, ‘young Eddie narrates’, 6th of 8 stories in BM
~ Jim Kjelgaard, “Curse of the Beaver”, ‘again, the wilderness’, 4th of 6 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Calling All Hearses”, 10th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 16th of 27 stories in BM
~ C.G. Tahney, [pseud of Charles Green, not to be confused with Charles M. Green], “Murder in Ten Easy Lessons”, Nickie, aka ‘Sherlock in short pants’, 2nd of 5 stories in BM
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July 1940 issue
T.T. Flynn, “The Bookie and the Blonde” (Mr. Maddox)
Leslie T. White, “One-Way Street”
Jan Dana, “The Murder Was a Pleasure” (Acme Indemnity Op)
John K. Butler, “The Man from Alcatraz” (Steve Midnight)
Hugh B. Cave, “He Didn’t Know Nothin’“ (Officer Coffey)
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