April 1953 issue
cover art by Norman Saunders
Dean Evans, “Remember Rose for Murder! (Daniel Marcus)
Dorothy Dunn, “Collect in Chi!”
Fletcher Flora, “Hell Has No Fury”
Richard Deming, “The Frame and the Dame” (Manny Moon)
V.E. Thiessen, “You’ll Murder ‘Em Tonight”
Joe Brennan, “Wrong Kind of Killing”
John P. Foran, “I Love You Deadly!” (Al Fansworth)
better image than previously posted
cover art by Fred Craft
~ Katherine Brocklebank, “Snowbirds”, 2nd of 7 stories in BM
~ Tom Curry, “Jungle Thieves”, ‘Venezuela & Federal Agents on the chase’, 11th of 39 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “This Way Out”, 14th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, “First [of 3] of Ed Jenkins’ thrilling adventures with ‘The Girl with the Mole’” [consecutive issues], reprinted in Dead Men’s Letters (1990, Carroll & Graf anthology of Jenkins stories), (title repeats 3/1937, but is different story), 23rd of 99 stories in BM
~ (Charles John) Cutcliffe Hyne, “The Escape”, 5th of 8 yarns with Captain Kettle
~ Don Livingston, “No Grandstand Play”, ‘Western‘, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “China Silk”, ‘introducing Buck Jason – booze runner extraordinary’, ‘1st of 3 with BJ’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 4 of 67 stories
~ Lt. Col. J.H. [John Henry] Patterson, D.S.O., “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo”, 6th of 7 serialized parts of this ex-British Army officer’s account of building a railway in Kenya, 1898-1899; book published in 1927
~ Riblew Reelhew, “The Robbing of Mind Tai Low”, ‘Chinatown character outwits crook’, 1st of 2 stories under this pseudonym, an anagram of Wilber Wheeler
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Sky-High Odds”, ‘3rd of 7 Chuck Reddington story; airplanes & machineguns’, 11th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
~ Erika Zastrow, “Joe’s Woman”, ‘in street-dialect’, 1st of 3 stories in BM
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(first copy of this title found in a dozen years of searching)
