cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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T.T. Flynn, “The Nightingale Sings Death” (Bill Jennings)
Frederick C. Davis, “Maestro of Murder” (Keyhole Kerry)
John Lawrence, “Body About Town” (Marquis of Broadway)
O.B. Myers, “Second-Hand Coffin” (Chief Carmody)
Cyril Plunkett, “Half a Crime”
cover art by Robert Stanley
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Francis K. Allan, “Two Down, Two to Die!”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “The Dead Who Kill Again”
Joe Kent, “Kill, Baby, Kill!”
Larry Holden, “Red Nightmare”
Robert Bloch, “A Head for His Bier!”
Talmage Powell, “To the Last Drop!”
Eric A. Provost, “Make Room for the Corpse!”
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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John Lawrence, “Death in Round Numbers” (Marquis of Broadway)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Combination” (Needle Mike)
James Duncan, “A Mere Half Million”
William Edward Hayes, “The Corpse in the Darkroom”
Cyril Plunkett, “Lead Medicine”
cover art by Gloria Stoll
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~ Thomson Burtis, “Deadline for Death”, ex-USA intelligence officer, now police Lt. Greg Sullivan, last of 6 appearances in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Murder Lode”, 24th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 27th of 32 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Flowers for Flanagan”, 10th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 15th of 23 stories in BM
~ Roland Phillips, “The Sentinel of Green Cove”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ William Rough, “Shoot If You Must”, ‘Ben Slabbe, p.i., who has his own agency; 2nd of 5 capers’ in BM
~ Ted Stratton, “Accounts Deceivable”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
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cover art by William Reusswig
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Westmoreland Gray, “The Beast in Black (Colin Windsor)
Carroll John Daly, “Murder at Midnight” (Vee Brown)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Forged Kill” (Dick Bentley)
Frederick Nebel, “Rogues’ Ransom” (Cardigan)
Oscar Schisgall, “The Hooded Terror” (Kent Carmiody)
Photo and profile of Gardner appeared on pgs. 123-24
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