
cover art by Walter Darr

cover art by William Reusswig
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Westmoreland Gray, “The Beast in Black (Colin Windsor)
Carroll John Daly, “Murder at Midnight” (Vee Brown)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Forged Kill” (Dick Bentley)
Frederick Nebel, “Rogues’ Ransom” (Cardigan)
Oscar Schisgall, “The Hooded Terror” (Kent Carmiody)
Photo and profile of Gardner appeared on pgs. 123-24

January 1928 issue
cover art by Fred Craft
~ Louis Victor Eytinge, “When Fingerprints Lied”, ‘Paul Prentiss, former pete-man (safe blower)’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Westmoreland Gray, “Guns of Silence”, ‘Vic Cammack, reporter, & Jerry the Yegg, crook, vs. bandits’, last of 3 stories in BM
~ Dashiell Hammett, “Dynamite”, 3rd of 4 Continental Op stories that will go together to make up Red Harvest (Knopf hc, 1929), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), 34th of 51 stories in BM
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “The Faith o’ MacGown”, 1st of 3 with Rio Kennedy of the Customs Service in Santo Domingo, 11th of 39 stories in BM
~ Carl L. Martin, “Pore Pickin’s”, Deputy Lon Havens, Drew County, Bayou country, ‘bank robbery & Mississippi River flood, dialect used’, 2nd of 6 in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “The Penalty of the Code”, ‘the code of silence’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 10 of 67 stories in BM
~ William S. Newell, “A Man Reforms”, ‘Louse’ Eller, a punk criminal, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Stephen Payne, “The Fifth Loop”, ‘Western‘, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ L.R. Sherman, “The Man Who Would Not Quit”, ‘Far North’, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “The Sky’s the Limit”, last of 7 Chuck Reddington story; ‘airplanes & machineguns’, 17th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “The Man From Limbo”
William Campbell Gault, “There’s Got to be an Angle”
Frederick C. Davis, “The Deadly Double”
Westmoreland Gray, “One Head Shorter”
Rufus Bakalor, “Tailspin Cutie”
John Bender, “She Wouldn’t Stay Dead”
John Lawrence, “Music from Hell”
Coretta Slavsky, “Relax and Regret”
