Stop the Presses!

Bill Brent/Lora Lorne
Created by Frederick C. Davis

From the blurb:

"Sweet, grandmotherly advice columnist for The New York Recorder LORA LORNE is actually burly, rough-edged, hard-drinking, broken-nosed, cigar-chomping hotshot newsie BILL BRENT who weighs in at 200 pounds and stands at six feet plus, in his size 11 brogues."

He appeared in over a dozen short stories in Dime Detective in the early forties. His assignment as advice columnist for the lovelorn was the result of a little, um, disagreement or two with his editor. But his nose for news keep leading Brent back to the crimebeat, and some violent murder cases, editors be damned.

The cover at the right there is from the December 1944 issue of Dime Detective.

SHORT STORIES

• "Please Pass the Poison" (February 1941 Dime Detective)
• "Let the Skeletons Rattle" (May 1941 Dime Detective)
• "Killer, Stay Away From My Door" (September 1941, Dime Detective)
• "You Slay Me, Baby" (July 1942, Dime Detective; also Hard-Boiled Detectives)
• "Give a Man a Corpse He Can Hide" (September 1942, Dime Detective)
• "More Deadly Than the Male" (December 1942, Dime Detective)
• "Home Sweet Homicide" (May, 1943 Dime Detective)
• "Clinic for Corpses" (October, 1943 Dime Detective)
• "A Stiff in Time Saves Nine" (May 1944, Dime Detective)
• "Boomerang Scoop" (June, 1944 Dime Detective)
• "Thanks for the Lovely Funeral" (October 1944, Dime Detective)
• "Death Wears Red Heels" (December 1944, Dime Detective)
• "The Corpse Takes a Wife" (June 1945, Dime Detective)
• "Death Can Wait" (December 1945, Dime Detective)
• "Some Like Em Dead" (March 1946, Dime Detective)
• "Here Comes the Hearse" (June 1946, Dime Detective)

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith. Thanks to Monte Herridge for some help here.