
Category: mystery
September 1946 UK issue
August 1938 issue ~ cover art by Jerome Rozen
April 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski
April 1951 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski
September 1932 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer


cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
better image than previously posted
~ Paul Cain, “The Dark”, ‘Kells & Granquist; part 5 of Fast One’, reprinted in The Complete Slayers (2011 Centipede Press), 7th of 17 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Black and White”, 46th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, 63th of 99 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “He Could Take It”, 9th of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 41 of 67 stories in BM
~ William Rollins, Jr., “Triple-Cross”, 3rd of 4 stories with Percy (Buck) Warren, private eye, 16th of 23 stories in BM
~ Joseph T. Shaw, “Fugitive”, 2nd of 4 parts, ‘Jack Henderson, set in Far East, eg, Rangoon’, 7th of 9 works of fiction in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Blue Murder”, ‘Don Free, private dick; 3rd and last DF story’, title used for earlier story in July ’28 issue, 58th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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June 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski
October 1959 Cardinal paperback

October 1959 Cardinal paperback reissue, first printing
cover painting by Charles Binger
better image than previously posted
The Finishing Stroke x 2

cover art by Jerry Allison

June 1963 Pocket reissue, 3rd print
cover art by Harry Bennett
better image than previously posted
cover art by Walter Popp

pen name of Milton K. Ozaki
1955 Graphic Mystery paperback original
cover art by Walter Popp
better image than previously posted

1956 Phantom paperback original from Australia
a number of changes to the cover:
– plant to phone in bottom left corner
— her hair is smoother
–yellow dress to red
–bracelet changed
–jewelry box different color
–background changed to window
–background table different, books different, bookend gone
–front table different
— mantle and logs different
–colors brighter and smoother






