January 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

January 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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~ D.L. Champion, “Death for a Dollar”, last of 26 Rex Sackler stories, same title as 3/44, also a Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), last of 30 stories in BM

~ Robert C. Dennis, “Stop, You’re Killing Me!”, ‘Rhodes, shamus’, 6th of 10 stories in BM

~ Bruno Fischer, “The Lady Grooms a Corpse”, last of 5 stories in BM

~ Philip Ketchum, “One Sunk Punk”, last of 3 stories in BM

~ Roy Lopez, “The Murder’s All Mine”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Robert Martin, “Dirge in Bolero Time”, 4th of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective, 6th of 8 stories in BM

~ Marian O’Hearn, “Swansong for an Ugly Duckling”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Herb Schneiderman, “Homicide – According to Hoyle”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Tedd Thomey, “Come Hell or Hot Water”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

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May 1926 issue ~ cover art by C.W. Svensson

May 1926 issue

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cover art by C.W. Svensson

~ Frank Bisson, “The Betel”, ‘South Seas’, only story in BM

~ Ben Lucien Burman, “The Needle of Osiris”, 2nd and last story in BM

~ Tom Curry, “Buck”, 4th of 23 with Macnamara (Mac), NYPD 1st grade dick, with ‘Buck, safecracker’, 7th of 39 stories in BM

~ Carroll John Daly, “South Sea Steel”, 13th of 53 with Race ‘Williams in the South Seas’, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015), 21st of 71 appearances in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Thisissosudden!”, 8th of 73 with Ed Jenkins, 15th of 99 stories in BM

~ Charles Somerville, “Walls Have Ears”, ‘Manhunters; 47th & last piece by CS in series which began in Feb 1923 issue’ [Haggeman notes this is the last of 47 but lists 49 total by CS, 2 of which are not Manhunters], last of 49 pieces in Haggeman and in BM

~ John Stanton, “A Fortune at Stake”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ J. Paul Suter, “The Terror by Night”, pt. 2 of 2, 9th of 15 stories with The Reverend McGregor Daunt, ‘clergyman by profession and detective by choice’, 13th of 19 appearances in BM

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