Category: crime fiction

June 1951 issue

January 1951 issue

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~ Robert Arthur, “The Coroner’s Hand”, ‘reprint, not originally BM’, 2nd of 2 appearances in BM

~ Robert C. Dennis, “I Thee Kill”, 9th of 10 stories in BM

~ Dean Evans, “Scandal-Time Gal”, last of 3 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “The Green Widow”, ’Sgt. Brinkhaus, reprint from “Detective Fiction Weekly”, 11 Feb 1933’, last of 67 (66 originals) stories in BM

~ Richard Sale, “Banshee”, ‘reprint; not from BM’

~ Robert Turner, “For the Rest of Your Death”, last of 4 stories in BM

~ Cornell Woolrich, “He Looked Like Murder”, ‘reprint; not from BM; orig. pub., Detective Fiction Weekly, 8 Feb 1941’, last of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM

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February 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

February 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

Robert Martin, “I’ll Be Killing You” (Jim Bennett)

Robert Turner, “Homicidal Hitchhiker”

E.A. Morris, “Fist for a Fighting Fool”

Russell Branch, “If the Frame Fits”

Don James, “Sing a Song of Slaughter” (PI Pete Johns)

Bert Sims,“No Time to Kill” (Hawkshaw Morgan)

Alvin Yudkoff, “You Gotta Die Right”

1953 Gold Medal paperback original ~ cover art by Barye Phillips

1953 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by Barye Phillips

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his third book, later reprinted as The Hot Spot, made into a movie directed by Dennis Hopper in 1990, staring Don Johnson, Jennifer Connelly and Virginia Madsen