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Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Killer-Diller”
Jan Dana, “Movable Alibi” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Leslie T. White, “Whole Hog or Nothing” (Sergeant Mackey)
O.B. Myers, “Cash on the Line”
Herbert Koehl, “Too Many Lefts”
Jackson Gregory, Jr., “Black is White”
cover art by Albert Drake?
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Robert Martin, “Murder the Bum” (Stephen Abbott)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Merry Queen of Murder” (Thackeray Hackett)
John D. MacDonald, “The Corpse Belongs to Daddy” (Donald Cheyne)
James A. Kirch, “Shoot If You Must” (Brad Harkness)
Dorothy Dunn, “Oblivion for Me” (Hollis Dorsey)
Johanas L. Bouma, “Bury Your Own Dead” (Joe Bowers)
Stuart Friedman, “Angel in the Deathhouse” (Thad Preston)
Jack Winters, “Slayer at Sea” (Thomas Brain)
cover art by Milton Luros
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D.L. Champion, “The Corpse That Wasn’t There” (Insp. Allhoff)
Norbert Davis, “Come UP and Kill Me Some Time” (Bail Bond Dodd)
Cornell Woolrich, “Murder at Mother’s Knee” (Johnny Gaines)
T.T. Flynn, “Salt Water Slay-Ride”
Jan Dana, “Death with Father” (Acme Indemnity Op)
cover art by Barye Phillips
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1958 Bestseller Library edition
cover art by Edgar Hodges
1950 Simon & Schuster hardcover, this the later 1953 Dell paperback reissue
stand-alone mystery
cover art by George Geygan
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cover art by J. George Janes
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~ Maurice Beam, “The White Lie”, ‘see p. 29 for letter from BM about story’, (thought to be possibly a pseud. of Robert Leslie Bellem), 5th of 7 stories under this name in BM
~ H.W. Guernsey, “The Last Pin”, ‘short-short’, last of 4 stories in BM
~ H.F. Howard, “The Corpse Takes a Wife”, see 12/1940 for Harvey Howard: Hagemann says ‘entirely possible HH and HFH one and the same’
~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Fisherman’s Luck”, 13th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, ‘Rice in South Florida’
~ Peter Paige, “Blackout!”, ‘spy story; set in Paris, early WWII‘, 4th of 12 stories in BM
~ William Tanquery, “Getting Maizie”, ‘Mac MacGrath & Jennie Komorawski, rival reporters’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Murder for Your Money”, ‘last (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 42nd of 50 appearances in BM
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cover art by Archie Gunn
~ John Baer, “The Struggle in the Dark”, 5th of 24 stories in BM
~ Walter De Leon, “Marked By the Moon”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Paul Everman, “A Call at Carnagy’s”, ‘short-short’, 3rd of 4 stories in BM
~ Clinton [aka Charles] Harcourt, “The Reflection in the Mirror”, last of 6 stories in BM
~ Julian Kilman, “The Fugitive”, 5th of 6 stories in BM
~ William H. Kofoed, “The Foot on the Skylight”, last of 3 stories in BM [under this name?]
~ Robert K. Lennox, “The Price of Vanity”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Lloyd Lonergan, “The Hunch”, 1st of 8 stories in BM
~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “ The Telegram”, and “Told By a Card”, 2 stories in this issue, 9th and 10th of 29 stories in BM
~ Angus Perkerson, “Ether”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Hubert de Tavanne Roussel, “The Trap”, ‘short-short’, 4th of 7 stories in BM
~ Anthony M. Rud, “The Farson Enigma”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Harold Ward, “Out of the Jaws of Death”, ‘short-short’, 14th of 29 stories under this name in BM [21st of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]
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