May 1, 2024 – SMB Noir

May 1942 issue

cover art by J.W. Scott

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[cover updated 1/15/25]

cover art by Norman Saunders

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cover art by Rudolph Belarski

Robert Wallace (W. Ryerson Johnson), “The Silent Death” (Richard Curtis Van Loan/The Phantom Detective)

Robert C. Blackmon, “Nailed”

Robert H. Leitfred, “Allison’s Last Pinch”

Hugh Austin, “Storeroom of Death”

Leonard B. Rosborough, “Steele Preferred”

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cover art by Emmett Watson

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First Edition. Hawkins dustjacket art. Rare hard-boiled mystery by this author who died young in 1945.

first novel with private eye Cellini Smith

there had been seven Smith short stories published in Black Mask Magazine by the time of the author’s death.

cover art by Gayle Hoskins