cover art by John Fleming Gould
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Carroll John Daly, “The Quick and the Dead” (Race Williams)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Ghoul Hangs High” (Keyhole Kerry)
D.L. Champion, “Lock the Death House Door!”
O.B. Myers, “Don’t Bet on Ghosts” (Doc Kincaid)
Mark Harper, “Frame for a Fall-Guy”
cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “The Evil Brand” (Val Easton)
Eric Taylor, “Scarlet Wake” (Jim Kern)
Frederick Nebel, “Pardon My Murder” (Cardigan)
Max Brand, “The Unnumbered Door” (Dave Clovelly)
Cornell Woolrich, “Preview of Death” [revised into “Murder Before the Camera”] (Det. Galbraith)
Sam Powell, “Blood Storm”
cover art by William Grotz
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~ Christopher B. Booth, “The Curse of Chester Whitaker”, 2nd of 5 BM stories
~ Hamilton Craigie, “Above Suspicion”, 3rd of 7 solo stories in BM
~ Eric A. Darling, “The Man in the Astrakhan Coat”, Parisian amateur sleuth Dale Owen, 3rd of 5 stories in BM
~ Thomas A. Hanley, “The Mysterious Terror”, ‘horror tale, featuring a beast, The Unnamable’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ J.B. Hawley, “The Man O’Leary Couldn’t Catch”, ‘NYPD Lt. O’Leary & jewel thief’, 2nd of 12 stories in BM
~ Albert MacCray, “In the Shadows of the Jungle”, ‘set in Borneo; Chinese, et al.’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Charles McDonnel, “The Crimson Scars”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Roylston Markham, “The Scar of the Gibbering Imp”, ‘short-short‘, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “The Safe in the Library”, ‘crookdom, complete with criminal argot’, 5th of 29 stories in BM
~ Lewis H. Moulton, “The Voice of the Dead Man”, ‘short-short’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Anthony M. Rud, “The Silver Screw”, ‘”Complete Mystery Novelette”; set in Ivory Coast (Africa)’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Harold Ward, “The Man Who Returned”, 7th of 29 stories under this name in BM [11th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]
~ Samuel Wilcox, “The Witness”, ‘short-short’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Arthur Seymour Witt, “The Crawling Crime”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
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cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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T.T. Flynn, “The Nightingale Sings Death” (Bill Jennings)
Frederick C. Davis, “Maestro of Murder” (Keyhole Kerry)
John Lawrence, “Body About Town” (Marquis of Broadway)
O.B. Myers, “Second-Hand Coffin” (Chief Carmody)
Cyril Plunkett, “Half a Crime”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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~ D.L. Champion, “A Corpse Means Cash”, 16th of 26 stories Rex Sackler, 18th of 30 stories in BM
~ Dale Clark, “That’s Murder for You”, 19th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 22nd of 32 stories in BM
~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Good Hunting”, last of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps19th of 20 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Leave Your Killing Card”, 3rd of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 8th of 23 stories in BM
~ Robert Reeves, “Blood, Sweat and Biers”, 9th Cellini Smith, ‘Smith & a boxing-fix’, reprinted in Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith (Steeger, 2020), 11th of 12 appearances in BM
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