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February 1937 issue
cover art by John Drew
~ Bayard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Fish to Fry”, 1st of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, author’s debut in BM
~ John Onslow, “The Damned Rookie”, 'Larry Brogan, rookie cop', 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Lay Off, O’Hara”, 4th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 5th of 27 stories in BM
~ MacAllister Street, “$1000 a Day”, ‘Hade, private ‘tec’, only appearance in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Murder’s Never Funny”, ‘3rd (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 25th of 50 appearances in BM
~ Donald Wandrei, “The Rod and the Staff”, ‘short-short’, 1st of 6 stories in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Murder on the Night Boat”, ‘police dick on honeymoon; Sergeant James Q. Bradford’, 2nd of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
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