cover art by H.J. Ward
Category: maritime fiction
1952 Dell paperback – cover art by Mike Ludlow
pseudonym of Zenith Brown, who also wrote as Brenda Conrad and David Frome
1952 Scribner hardcover, this the later 1952 Dell paperback
cover art by Mike Ludlow
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December 1949 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Frank Huepper, “Hell Bent for Homicide”
Mel Colton, “Dreamer with a Gun” (Johnny Rock)
John D. MacDonald, “Take a Powder, Galahad!“
Richard E. Glendinning, “The Lady from Limbo”
John Bender, “Fall-Guy’s Feint”
Bert Styler, “Why Stoolies Get Stiff”
Mark Wilson, “Those Sticky, Sticky Fingers”
November 1942 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders/Canadian edition April 1943
cover art by Norman Saunders – and signed by him as well
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cover art by John Hilkert for the Canadian April 1943 edition
July 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
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)
January 1946 issue ~ cover art by Samuel Cherry
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)
March 1943 issue ~ cover art by Robert Gibson Jones
September 1949 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
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)
May 1942 issue
November 1950 issue ~ 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
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