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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cover art by Robert Stanley
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Francis K. Allan, “Two Down, Two to Die!”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “The Dead Who Kill Again”
Joe Kent, “Kill, Baby, Kill!”
Larry Holden, “Red Nightmare”
Robert Bloch, “A Head for His Bier!”
Talmage Powell, “To the Last Drop!”
Eric A. Provost, “Make Room for the Corpse!”
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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John Lawrence, “Death in Round Numbers” (Marquis of Broadway)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Combination” (Needle Mike)
James Duncan, “A Mere Half Million”
William Edward Hayes, “The Corpse in the Darkroom”
Cyril Plunkett, “Lead Medicine”
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