November 1943 issue
cover art by Gloria Stoll
Day Keene, “The Man from Hell”
Russell Gray, “I’ll Slay You Later”
Joe Kent, “Suicide Symphony”
William R. Cox, “Murder in Cinema City” (Tom Kincaid)
Francis K. Allan, “Mail from the Murdered”
Stuart Friedman, “Vengeance of the Voodoo Dancers”
both better images than previously posted
cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Triple Treachery”, 30th of 73 stories with Ed Jenkins, with his wife Helen Chadwick, in LA, 2nd half of story with Ramsey, from previous issue, 47th of 99 stories in BM
~ Dashiell Hammett, “The Maltese Falcon”, part 4 of 5 serialized parts before hardcover publication (1931), reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 38th of 45 stories in BM
~ Horace McCoy, “Renegades of the Rio”, 3rd of 14 stories with ‘Capt. Jerry Frost, Texas (Air) Ranger’, 4th of 17 stories in BM
~ Lester Reynard, “Saving the Double-Cross”, 4th of 5 stories in BM
~ Earl and Marion Scott, “Craleigh Comes to Life”, 2nd of 6 stories with ‘Phil Craleigh, once brilliant lawyer, now a drunk, given to bouts of reform’, 10th of 17 stories in BM as a couple
~ L.R. Sherman, “Reading Sign on the Sagebrush Kid”, Western, last of 3 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Outside”, ‘Mal Ourney; part 1 (of 5), ‘The Crime Breeders’, presented as separate stories rather than conventional serial’, pub. in hardcover in 1930 by Knopf as Green Ice, 35th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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[post updated 6/21/26]
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