cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “Dead Men Don’t Scare”
Talmage Powell, “Forget-Me-Not Killer”
Frederick C. Davis, “If the Noose Fits”
Robert Turner, “Murder in Her Wake”
Van MacNair, Jr., “White-Collar Stiff”
Russell Branch, “So Sorry – So Dead”
Scott O’Hara, “Five-Star Fugitive” (pen name of MacDonald’s)
cover art by Samuel Cherry
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Peter Paige, “Twelve Dead Mice” (Cash Wale)
H.H. Stinson, “Start with Murder (Sam Fisk)
Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Trove” (Doc Pierce)
William R. Cox, “Vacation – With Slay” (Malachi Manatee)
Robert C. Dennis, “They’re Coming Through the Door!” (Hank O’Neill)
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Frederick C. Davis, “Sinner Take All”
John D. MacDonald, “Murder Run-Around”
Robert Martin, “Deadliest Dame in Town” (Jim Bennett)
Paul W. Fairman, “Spotlight on Slaughter”
E.A. Morris, “I’ll Laugh at Your Funeral”
Larry J. Marcus, “The Spider’s Web”
Harvey Weinstein, “Rendezvous with Blood”
Scott O’Hara, “Mad About Murder” (pen name of John D. MacDonald)
cover art by Norman Saunders
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~ John Bender, “Mayhem Patrol”, ‘prowl-car cop is 1st-person narrator’, 2nd and last story in BM
~ Richard Deming, “Five O’Clock Shroud”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st-person narrator, 5th of 6 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “Dead –End for Delia”, last of 9 stories in BM
~ Richard E. Glendinning, “Die, Gypsy, Die!”, ‘Lt. Oscar Daniels, homicide’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Albert Simmons, “Disc-Jockey Dirge”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Robert Turner, “Hell Is What You Make It”, 3rd of 4 stories in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Of Time and Murder”, ‘reprint; not from BM; orig. pub., Detective Fiction Weekly, 15 Mar 1941’, 23rd of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
May 10, 1943
cover art by E. Franklin Wittmack
SMB Noir 