cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “Dead Men Don’t Scare”
Talmage Powell, “Forget-Me-Not Killer”
Frederick C. Davis, “If the Noose Fits”
Robert Turner, “Murder in Her Wake”
Van MacNair, Jr., “White-Collar Stiff”
Russell Branch, “So Sorry – So Dead”
Scott O’Hara, “Five-Star Fugitive” (pen name of MacDonald’s)
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cover art by Rudolph Belarski – repurposed for…
1949 Popular Library paperback original
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collection of novelettes
~ Terry O.K. Burleson, “Killer Bait”, ‘Modern Western’, only story in BM
~ D.L. Champion, “A Corpse Can’t Run”, ‘Dan Morgan, private eye’, 27th of 30 stories in BM
~ Barry Cord, “Shoot If You Must”, Steve Weston, shamus, only story in BM
~ R.M.F. Joses, “Side Bet on Death”, last of 3 with ‘Hollywood private snoop Duane, 1st person narrator’, this story set in Vegas, 3rd of 4 stories in BM
~ John H. Knox, “Goodbye, Enemy”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ John D. MacDonald, “The Case of the Carved Model”, ‘Sam Dermott, police dick’, 2nd of 6 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Murder Is a Pleasure”, ‘Sam Terry, p.i., & partner, Sol Hirshberg; LA setting’, last of 27 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[cover updated 1/29/26, original art added 2/28/26]
1948 Doubleday hardcover in the US, 1949 Hodder and Stoughton hardcover from the UK, a collection of Simon Templar short stories
1954 Avon reissue
cover art by Ray Johnson
SMB Noir 
