cover art by Graves Gladney
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Category: crime fiction
May, 1939 issue ~ cover art by J. George Janes
May, 1939
cover art by J. George Janes
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~ Carroll John Daly, “Murder Made Easy”, ‘Clay Holt’, 68th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Frank Gruber, “Funny Man”, 8th of 10with ‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, ’Quade in Hollywood; see p. 5 for letter from FG on OG’, 12th of 14 stories in BM
~ H. Randolph Peacock, “Bare Facts”, ‘nudist camp setting; epistolary style’, last of 4 stories in BM
~ Stewart Sterling (pseud. of Prentice Winchell), “Strictly for Suckers”, 1st of 3 stories with Vince Mallie, debut in BM, 1st of 12 stories
~ Emile C. Tepperman, “Death of Sale”, ‘vacuum cleaner salesman’, last of 3 stories in BM
~ K. Webster, “Prison Break”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
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April 23, 1938 issue
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Frederick C. Painton, “Midnight Call”
Charles Alexander, “Devil in the Left Barrel”
Roger Torrey, “You Only Hang Once”
Samuel Taylor, “The Girl from Yesterday”
Convict 12627, “They Talk Like This”
Cyril Plunkett, “Dark Blind”
Stookie Allen: Illustrated Crimes
Arden X. Pangborn, “Rules and Regulations”
Dale Clark, “Murder Wholesale”
B.B. Fowler, “Future Indicative”
March 1951 issue
December 1939 issue ~ cover art by Graves Gladney
May 1939 issue
October 21, 1939 issue ~ cover by Rudolph Belarski
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cover by Rudolph Belarski
Fred R. Miller, “Dead Man’s Blues”
Hugh B. Cave, “But Few Are Chosen”
Walter Ripperger , “Are You Planning to Die?” (Part 3 of 6; C.O. Ponder)
Joseph Fulling Fishman, “New Year Murder Riddle”
J. Lane Linklater, “Knife Thrust”, Gang World, September 1931
Stookie Allen – Copper!: Scientific Sherlock
Robert Leslie Bellem, “Night Beat”
Philip Ketchum, “Getaway Car”
M.E. Ohaver, “Solving Cipher Secrets”
May 30, 1936 issue
first appearance of Raymond Chandler’s “Noon Street Nemesis”, which would later be reissued as “Pick-Up on Noon Street” for The Simple Art of Murder
1950 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, first edition
surreal cover illustration by Artzybasheff
February 1936 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward
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cover by H.J. Ward
Morgan Lafay, “Cargo for Hell”
Lew Merrill, “Bat Man”
Robert Leslie Bellem, “Shadows Pass”
E. Hoffmann Price, “Desert Magic”
Jerome Severs Perry, “Graveyard Honeymoon”
Clint Morgan, “Two Must Pay”
Don King, “The Devil Takes His Dead”
Cary Moran, “A Student of the Stars”
Arthur Wallace, “Maggots of Madness”
March 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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cover art by Rafael DeSoto
~ D.L. Champion, “Death for a Dollar”, 13th of 26 with Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 15th of 30 stories in BM
~ Leslie Charteris, “Murder Goes to Market”, 2nd of 2 Saint stories, last appearance in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Hands Down”, 16th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 18th of 32 stories in BM
~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Clues in the Night”, 14th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps, 17th of 20 stories in BM
~ Clyde Morehead, “Tears for Little Willie”, ‘short-short’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Ted Stratton, “Call the Undertaker”, ‘Trigg’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
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