
Author: Seattle Mystery Bookshop
1954, Down Three Dark Streets

Broderick Crawford and Ruth Roman in a publicity still for Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
April 1925 issue ~ cover art by A.T. Stewart

April 1925 issue
cover art by A.T. Stewart
~ Frank L. Benscoter, “Shola Al”, ‘a detective story’, 3rd of 5 stories in BM
~ C. Chapin, “Room Rent”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Valma Clark, “A Little Matter of Chivalry”, “A Mystery of Real Life”, only appearance in BM
~ Ray(mond King) Cummings, “The System of T. McGuirk”, ‘11th of 14 McGuirk stories, billed as “the quaintest character in the Underworld” & honest, more of less’, 11th of 15 stories in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “Conceited, Maybe”, 7th of 53 with Race Williams, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015) 15th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Arthur Kearns, “A Born Thief”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Genevieve Neegard, “The Sandalwood Casket”, advertised as ‘a meek man drunk with blood’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ William Rollins, Jr., “Treasures That Dead Men Guard”, part 3 of 3, last of 3 stories with Jack Darrow, 12th of 23 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “The Grey-Green House”, 39th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 40th of 49 total articles in BM
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Wake Up, Henry
1956 Gold Medal paperback ~ cover art by Mitchell Hooks
1960s mugshots
August 1942 issue ~ cover art by Cardwell S. Higgins
1952 Scion release
1958 Gold Medal paperback original
1961 Newsstand Library paperback original ~ cover art by Robert Bonfils

“An attractive copy of Charles Willeford’s UNDERSTUDY FOR LOVE (1961), a paperback original published by the Newsstand Library. Signed by cover artist Robert Bonfils, king of 1960’s sleaze art.”





