
1965 Penguin release

unknown artist – Howell Dodd?

November 1950 Smash Detective Crime Cases
cover art reused for March 1954 Best True Fact Detective

cover art repurposed for 1958 Beacon paperback original



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~ Carroll John Daly, “One Night of Frenzy”, 10th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Harold De Polo, “Mr. Dugan’s Vocation”, 5th of 6 stories in BM
~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas, “White Midnight”, last of 4 parts, ‘South Seas setting’, author’s only story in BM
~ Edward Ettinger, “The Mystery of Perkins Farm”, 2nd and last story in BM
~ Arthur S. Garbett, “The Times Speeder”, ‘amateur sleuth, 1st-person narrator, novelette’, last of 4 stories in BM
~ Dashiell Hammett, “The House in Turk Street”, the Op [9th of 25], see sequel “The Girl with the Silver Eyes”, (6/1924), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), reprinted in Zigzags of Treachery: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Continental Op, Vol. 1 (Steeger, 2023), 15th of 51 stories in BM
~ L.M. Lish, “Poker”, ‘short-short’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “The Seven Gold Figures”, 7th of 10 with ‘Captain Valentine, that ‘attractive European scalawag’, adventurer and rascal’, ‘see p.127 for letter from CSM‘, 23rd of 29 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “A Reporter’s Clue”, 28th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 29th of 49 total articles in BM
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May 1948 issue – cover art by Rudolph Belarski
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cover art repurposed for 1949 Popular Library reissue

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#5, October 1952 – Final issue of the series, fifth of five