cover art by Rudolph Zirm
Category: mystery
February 1937 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
December 1952 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 20.5 x 14.75 in.
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Craig Rice & Mark Hope, “Case of the Vanishing Blonde” (Ed Bradbury)
Tiah Devitt, “The Merry Wives of Murder” (reprint from 1942)
Larry Holden, “Lady-Killer”
Richard Goggin, “For Old Crime’s Sake”
V.E. Thiessen, “Lady in Hades”
John Bender, “Tying Room Only”
Andrew Holt, “Death on a Platter”
Rufus Bakalor, “Love, Honor and Slay”
February 1934 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
July 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
September 1948 issue ~ cover art by Albert Drake
cover art by Albert Drake
Frederick C. Davis, “Man About Murder”
T.T. Flynn, “I’ll Bet Your Life!” (Mr. Maddox)
Robert Martin, “Doctor of Doom”
Richard Dermody, “Cupid for Cash” (Doc Pierce)
Dean Evans, “Dreams Get Blasted, Too”
Russell Branch, “A Corpse Had Cold Feet”
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July 15, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig
cover art by William Reusswig
T.T. Flynn, “Torture Tavern” (Val Easton vs. Black Doctor)
Ralph Oppenheim, “The Death Lady” (Glen Kelsey, PI)
Frederick Nebel, “Scrambled Murder” (Cardigan)
Edward Parrish Ware, “The Gallows Cure”
September 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
cover art by Tom Lovell
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Frederick C. Davis, “The Coming of the Mad Ones”
Paul Ernst, “Corpses in the Barn”
H.M. Appel, “We Are the Damned”
Clark Clayton, “Breakfast for the Dying”
Dale Clark, “Hounds of the Restless Dead”
Wayne Rogers, “Satan’s Slave Market”
January 1942 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
Stewart Sterling, “Bull-Market for the Dying”
Francis K. Allan, “Am I the Corpse’s Keeper?“
William R. Cox, “Beware the Black Queen” (Tom Kincaid)
Wayne Rogers, “Murder Town”
Dane Gregory, “All at Once—No Wednesday!“
Russell Gray, “Death Hitch-Hikes South”
May 1928 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft
cover art by Fred Craft
~ Tom Curry, “The System”, DeVrite, NYPD undercover ‘secret agent’, 4th of 7, subtitled ‘The Receiver’, 23rd of 39 stories in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “The Law of Silence”, ‘pt. 2 Crime story (subtitled “The Show-Down”) with Charlie, 1st -person narrator’
~ Carroll John Daly, “Wrong Street”, 2nd story in the issue, last Satan Hall story in BM, 33rd and 34th appearances in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Out of the Shadows”, 22nd of 73 with Ed Jenkins, in Chinatown with Soo Hoo Duck, Ngat T’oy and Helen Chadwick, 32nd of 99 stories in BM
~ W.H.B. Kent, “The Killer Finds a Horseshoe”, 3rd of 6 Westerns with Killer Blake, deputy sheriff & agent of the Stock Association
~ Henry Leverage, “The Gopher”, “Tony Fishera, alias ‘The Crawler, aka ‘The Gopher’ – gangster”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Marion Scott, “Fools Rush In”, ‘Steve Burke, tenderfoot lumberjack, 1st-person narrator’, 2nd of 3 by herself, 17 stories with Earl Scott in BM as a couple
~ Everett H. Tipton, “Hunted”, ‘Western’, 5th of 7 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Black Murder”, ‘Verner, Federal man, & greyhound racing; Black Murder = dog’, 20th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
~ Clee Woods, “Hoofprints of Law”, ‘Western; subtitled, “A Neck in a Noose”’, author’s sole appearance in BM
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