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Frederick C. Davis, “A Stiff in Time Saves Nine” (Bill Brent)
T.T. Flynn, “The Sooner the Deader” (Mr. Maddox)
C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Who Owns Boriska?” (Colonel Kaspir)
Richard Dermody, “The Doctor Deals” (Doc Pierce)
January 1939 issue
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~ James Duncan, “Murder for Pennies”, last of 5 stories with The Parson, who lives on a ‘mythical’ (fictional?) isle, Cariba, reprinted in Murder for Pennies: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Parson (Steeger, 2024), last of 10 appearances in BM
~ Steve Fisher, “Jake and Jill”, ‘Honolulu setting’, 7th of 9 stories in BM
~ Jackson Gregory, “Dusty Death”, 1st of 2 stories in BM, this the only original one (see 5/1951)
~ H.W. Guernsey, “A Thousand Iron Men”, ‘iron men’ = $1 bill’, 3rd of 4 stories in BM
~ Eric Howard, “The Doc and the Dame”, last of 6 stories in BM
~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Arson”, 9th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, ‘see p. 63 for note by BHK on story’
~ H.H. Stinson, “All-American Menace”, 10th of 27 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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John K. Butler, “Hacker’s Holiday” (Steve Midnight)
John Lawrence, “Gallows 9” (Marquis of Broadway)
D.L. Champion, “Suicide in Blue (Insp. Allhoff)
Roger Torrey, “Candidate for a Killing”
O.B. Myers, “Death Laughs at Locksmiths”
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Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Killer-Diller”
Jan Dana, “Movable Alibi” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Leslie T. White, “Whole Hog or Nothing” (Sergeant Mackey)
O.B. Myers, “Cash on the Line”
Herbert Koehl, “Too Many Lefts”
Jackson Gregory, Jr., “Black is White”
SMB Noir 