cover art by H.L. Parkhurst
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[cover updated 4/29/26]
Category: Hardboiled
December 1929 issue
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cover art by Arthur Wilson?
Anatole Feldman, “Rough on “Rats”
Walt S. Dinghall, “Pearls of Death”
Frederic Borden (given as by Frederick Borden), “Guns of Gangland”
John Gerard, “On the Spot”
George J. Brenn, “Twice Around the Clock”
William McNeil, “One Hour Before Dawn”
Stephen Barr-Richardson, “Night Clubs of the Air”
Henry Leverage, “Crooked Charity”
Jay G. Dunn, “The Disastrous Duplicate”
B.W. Gardner, “A Case of Identity”
Tom Champion, “Bars of Hades” (Part 2 of 5)
E. Parke Levy, “The Lady from Castle-Bar”
May 1931 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
February 1937 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
July 1942 issue
August 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
March 1936 issue ~ cover art by Jerome Rozen
October 1949 issue
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Lauri Wirta, “Devil’s Island—New Style”
Ted Palmer: Popular Films
Talmage Powell, “Time of the Demon”
Frederick Blakeslee: Adventures into the Unknown
John D. MacDonald, “Last Rendezvous”
Day Keene, “The Laughing Dead”
Larry Holden, “Bloody Night!“
Margaret St. Clair, “Nightmare Lady”
Lix Agrabee, “The Corpse Came Back!“
Mayan & Jakobsson: Macabre Museum
Benjamin Siegel, “While the Killers Wait…”
Skippy Adelman, “The Crimson Pool”
William Campbell Gault, “Return to Terror”
The Editor: Mystery’s Dark Portals
April 1938 issue ~ cover art by A. Leslie Ross
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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