
cover art by J. George Janes

cover art by Robert Stanley
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Francis K. Allan, “What Makes Sammy Kill?”
Thorne Lee, “It’s in the Bag!”
Jimmy Nichols, “Cops Are Born”
Robert Turner, “Party to Murder!”
John D. FitzGerald, “Too Mean to Live!”
Arthur Leo Zagat,“Death-Dance of the Broken Dolls”
Talmage Powell, “Blood in Your Eye!”
Cyril Plunkett, “Deadly Is My Sleep”
Wilbur S. Peacock, “Copperhead”
Dale Clark, “Corpses, Incorporated” (Socrates Bean)
Jhan Robbins, “The Waxwork Wake”

cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Frederick Nebel, “Hell Couldn’t Stop Him” (Cardigan)
Leslie T. White, “Crook for a Night” (Toby Laird)
William Edward Hayes, “The Corpse on the Semaphore” (Dan Howell)
T. T. Flynn, “The Dragons of Change Ch’ien” (Val Easton)
O.B. Myers, “Grave Mates” (Jimmy McRay)

January 1937 issue
cover art by Wilber Thomas
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~ Dwight V. Babcock, “State Narcotic Dick”, ‘Bromley and muggles (marijuana)’, 13th of 21 stories in BM
~ J.M. Bell, “The Blinking Eye”, short-short, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Max Brand, “Bulldog”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Raymond Chandler, “Try the Girl”, 4th and last Carmady story, first reprint and first book appearance Killer in the Rain (Hammish Hamilton, 3/26/64), last of 11 stories in BM
~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “Little Guy”, ‘18th (of 25) Jerry Tracy capers, columnist on the (NYC) Planet, ‘mixer with poor and rich, the crooked and the straight, trailer of trouble and happiness’, reprinted in Murder Maze: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jerry Tracy, vol.2 (Steeger 2022), 19th of 26 stories in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Murder Frame”, ‘Cassidy, cop, is framed’, 24th of 50 appearances in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Shooting Going On”, ‘Hollywood murder’, 1st of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
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