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September 1928 issue

cover art by Fred Craft

~ Tom Curry, “Crooks in Arcady”, 13th of 23 with Macnamara (Mac), NYPD 1st grade dick, 27th of 39 stories in BM

~ Carroll John Daly, “The Last Chance”, 26th of 53, ‘Race Williams vs. The Hidden Hand; Pt. 4 of 5 loosely organized 5-pt. serial’, 38th of 71 appearances in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Devil’s Deputy”, 6th of 7 Black Barr; ‘Chinese, Wing Lee, is Deputy’, 34th of 99 stories in BM

~ Francis W. Hilton, “The Kid Wrangler”, author’s sole story in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Raw Law”, 1st of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy, with Jack Cardigan, 1st of the ‘Crimes of Richmond City’ sub-series, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kenney, v.1 (Altus, 2013), 13 of 67 stories in BM

~ Henry Wallace Phillips, “The Wooing of Shah-Layah”, 3rd Red Saunders with ‘Jack & Indian girl (Shah-Layah) who marry’, 5th of 12 stories in BM

~ Earl and Marion Scott, “An Hour Before Dawn”, ‘Escaped con, Bat Sladen; Flint Williams, detective’, 2nd of 17 stories in BM as a couple

~ Erika Zastrow, “A Moll and Her Man”, ‘billed as “A Drama of the Underworld”’, last of 3 stories in BM

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October 1931 issue

cover art by J. W. Schlaikjer

~ Thomson Burtis, “Every Move a Picture”, part 1 of 2, ‘Dan Sloane, movie director, on location in TX for $3million production’, 1st of 6 appearances in BM

~ Tom Curry, “The Roper”, 22nd of 23 with Macnamara (Mac), NYPD 1st grade dick, 37th of 39 stories in BM

~ Roman Decolta, “Shooting Gallery”, Jo Gar, 16th of 24 Gar stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Hot Squat”, 38th of 73 Ed Jenkins, 55th of 99 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Death’s Not Enough”, 7th of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 35 of 67 stories in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Steel Arena”, ‘Alan Van Cleve, wealthy sportsman, man-about-town, 3rd (of 6) segment in The Skyline Murders series; printed as separate stories rather than conventional serial’; pub. as Killer’s Carnival (1932) under pseudonym of Temple Field’,  51st of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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October 1932 issue

cover art by J. W. Schlaikjer

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “On Two Feet”, last Bob Larkin story, 1st since 9/1929, 64th of 99 stories in BM

~ Horace McCoy, “Wings over Texas”, 12th of 14 stories with Frost 'Capt. Jerry Frost, Texas (Air) Ranger' 15th of 17 stories in BM

~ James H[enry] S[eymour] Moynahan, “Blow-Off”, ‘O’Brien, private dick’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “The Red Web”, 10th of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, ‘Donohue, a.k.a “The Hard Boiled One”', reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 42 of 67 stories in BM

~ Joseph T. Shaw, “Fugitive”, 3rd of 4 parts, ‘Jack Henderson, set in Far East, eg, Rangoon’, 8th of 9 works of fiction in BM

~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “Party from Detroit”, ‘1st (of 25) Jerry Tracy capers, columnist on the (NYC) Planet, ‘mixer with poor and rich, the crooked and the straight, trailer of trouble and happiness’, 1st of 26 stories in BM

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April 1933 issue

cover art by J. W. Schlaikjer

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Chinatown Murder”, 49th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘Chinese frequently spoken’, 70th of 99 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Farewell to Crime”, 21th of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy, v.3 (Altus, 2013), 46 of 67 stories in BM

~ Norvell Page, “Black Harvest”, 'last of 3 Jules Tremaine stories; Manhattan and Little Italy; (ed. note) a projected & potentially important series that never developed’ [Hagemann doesn’t explain his editor’s note], only these 3 stories in BM

~ William Rollins, Jr., “K.O. and the Killers”, 3rd of 4 stories with ‘Kenneth Osborne from ‘No’th Cah’lina’; 1st person narrator’, 20th of 23 stories in BM

~ H.H. Stinson, “Give the Man Rope”, 1st of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, debut and 1st of 27 stories in BM

~ Roger Torrey, “The Case-Hardened Samaritan”, 2nd of 11 with Dal Prentice, Magna City police dick, ‘one tough guy’, ‘Prentice – “hard when it comes to handling killers”, 3rd of 50 appearances in BM

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May 1936 issue

cover art by Tom Lovell

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November 1926 issue

cover art by Henry C. Murphy

~ Carroll John Daly, “Half-Breed”, 16th of 53 with ‘Race Williams among the Oklahoma oil-rich Indians’, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015), 24th of 71 appearances in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Money, Marbles and Chalk”, 11th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘still a ‘crook’, 19th of 99 stories in BM

~ (Charles John) Cutcliffe Hyne, “The Guns for Cuba”, 1st of 8 yarns with Captain Kettle, author’s debut in BM

~ Don Livingston, “The Awakening of Bash Langley”, 'modern-day Western', 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Grain to Grain”, ‘Corson & Gleason, ex-gangster and ex-boxer turned dicks’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 2 of 67 stories

~ Lt. Col. J.H. [John Henry] Patterson, D.S.O., “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo”, 2nd of 7 serialized parts of this ex-British Army officer’s account of building a railway in Kenya, 1898-1899; book published in 1927

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Delivered Goods”, ‘aviator hero; see headnote for data on RFW’, 7th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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September 1930 issue

cover art by H. C. Murphy

Frederick Nebel, “Flying Freebooters” (Ben Cowan: Luke Lance)

Tom J. Hopkins, “Ridin’ the Wind"   

George Murray, “Barriers in the Blue” (Part 1 of 4)   

Theodore A. Tinsley, “The Gray Pigeon"   

Gil Brewer, “Rim of the World” (Part 4 of 4)   

Erle N. Smith, “Golden Clouds"

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December 1929 issue

cover art by Howard L. Hastings

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