cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer
better image than previously posted
The Editors, “Meeting the Story-Maker – Donald G. Cormack”
Ray King, “Brides for Murdered Men”
Dane Gregory, “Golden Lady of Death” (Rocky Rhodes)
Russell Gray, “Girls for the Coffin Syndicate” (Ben Bryn)
W. Wayne Robbins, “Mad Is the Flesh-Master!“
Donald G. Cormack, “Satan’s Surgeon”, given as “Corpse Surgeon” on the cover (Tom Cardigan)
(cover art repurposed from January 1935 issue)
better image (by a little) than previously posted
cover art by H.C. Murphy
~ Ray(mond) King, “T. McGuirk Lends a Helping Hand”, ‘13th of 14 McGuirk stories, billed as “the quaintest character in the Underworld” & honest, more of less’, 13th of 15 stories in BM
~ Joseph Gollomb, “The Man Who Stole a Palace”, ‘study of Parisian police methods’, 2nd of 6 articles
~ Glenn G. Gravatt, “The Million Dollar Robbery”, ‘The Manhunters; for this series, see chiefly under Charles Somerville,’ author’s only appearance in BM
~ Dashiell Hammett, “Corkscrew”, ‘The Op [12th of 22] in Arizona, billed as ‘A Western Detective Novelette’, reprinted in As Tough as They Come (Perma, 1951), 17th of 45 stories in BM
~ William La Varre, “The Golden Head”, ‘A Daytime Story’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Ralph E. Mooney, “Outside the World”, ‘attempted murder of an editor’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ L. King Tichenor, “A Just Price”, ‘The Senator’ [no other explanation], 4th of 5 stories in BM
~ Henry S. Whitehead, “The Gladstone Bag”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Valleau Wilkie, “The White Elephant”, ‘Billed as “A Last Minute Mystery”’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Jack Woodford, “Blank Fingers”, ‘article; fingerprints; cf. under John Nicholas Beffel’, May 1925 issue
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