
cover art by Gayle Hoskins


August 1939 issue – final issue under this name, changed to Gangland Detective Stories in November
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~ Robert Arthur, “The Coroner’s Hand”, ‘reprint, not originally BM’, 2nd of 2 appearances in BM
~ Robert C. Dennis, “I Thee Kill”, 9th of 10 stories in BM
~ Dean Evans, “Scandal-Time Gal”, last of 3 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “The Green Widow”, ’Sgt. Brinkhaus, reprint from “Detective Fiction Weekly”, 11 Feb 1933’, last of 67 (66 originals) stories in BM
~ Richard Sale, “Banshee”, ‘reprint; not from BM’
~ Robert Turner, “For the Rest of Your Death”, last of 4 stories in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “He Looked Like Murder”, ‘reprint; not from BM; orig. pub., Detective Fiction Weekly, 8 Feb 1941’, last of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop


December 1954 Signet reissue, first printing
cover painting by Robert Maguire
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cover art by Norman Saunders
Robert Martin, “I’ll Be Killing You” (Jim Bennett)
Robert Turner, “Homicidal Hitchhiker”
E.A. Morris, “Fist for a Fighting Fool”
Russell Branch, “If the Frame Fits”
Don James, “Sing a Song of Slaughter” (PI Pete Johns)
Bert Sims,“No Time to Kill” (Hawkshaw Morgan)
Alvin Yudkoff, “You Gotta Die Right”

unknown cover artists – unfortunately…

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British version, unknown date
