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10 Story Mystery Magazine x 3

June 1942 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

September 1942 Canadian edition

#2, 1948 British edition

November 1942 issue

November 1942 issue

cover art by Peter Driben?

better image than previously posted

January 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

January 1943 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

~ Merle Constiner, “Why Meddle with Murder?”, ‘Luther McGavock, private detective; he works Atherton Browne who heads a Memphis-based agency, 3rd of 11 of the McG stories; usually rural setting’, reprinted in Let the Dead Alone: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Luther McGavock (Steeger, 2020), 3^rd of 12 stories in BM

~ George Harmon Coxe, “Blood on the Lens”, part 1 of 3 of Murder for Two (novel published 1943), 25th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 29th of 31 stories in BM

~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Don’t Stand Under the Blackjack Tree”, 12th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps, 12^th of 20 stories in BM

~ Alan Farley [pseudonym of Mrs. W. Lee Herrington], “Buttered on Both Sides”, 2^nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Tom Marvin, “Bag o’Bones”, ‘1^st person narrator is a 23-year-old small town sheriff’, 1^st of 3 stories

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May 1943 issue

May 1943

September 1922 issue ~ cover art by William Grotz

September 1922 issue

cover art by William Grotz

~ John Baer, “The Murderer’s Name and Address”, 22^nd of 24 stories in BM

~ M. Hernaiz Becerra, “The Ordway Suicide Mystery”, only story in BM

~ Hubert Raymond Carter [prename also given as Herbert], “The House with Silver Shutters”, 2^nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Frederick C. Davis, “The Living Dead”, 1^st of 16 stories in BM

~ Meredith Davis, “Velvet Tips”, 1^st of 3 stories in BM

~ Jack J. Gottlieb, “Eyes That See Not”, ‘North, a criminal, & poetic justice’, 5^th of 8 stories in BM

~ Robert Hannan, “The Thirteenth Victim”, ‘short-short’, only appearance in BM

~ Herman Petersen, “The Seven Gilded Balls” and “Poisoned Gas”, author’s 1^st and 2^nd of 20 stories in BM

~ Howard P. Rockey, “Madge the Mouse”, 4th of 5 stories in BM

~ J.J. Stagg, “The Broken Melody”, last of 11 stories in BM

~ Harold Ward, “Dollars and Scents”, ‘Complete Mystery Novelette’, 27th of 29 stories under this name in BM [43rd of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]