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April 1925 issue
cover art by A.T. Stewart
~ Frank L. Benscoter, “Shola Al”, ‘a detective story’, 3rd of 5 stories in BM
~ C. Chapin, “Room Rent”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Valma Clark, “A Little Matter of Chivalry”, “A Mystery of Real Life”, only appearance in BM
~ Ray(mond King) Cummings, “The System of T. McGuirk”, ‘11th of 14 McGuirk stories, billed as “the quaintest character in the Underworld” & honest, more of less’, 11th of 15 stories in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “Conceited, Maybe”, 7th of 53 with Race Williams, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015) 15th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Arthur Kearns, “A Born Thief”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Genevieve Neegard, “The Sandalwood Casket”, advertised as ‘a meek man drunk with blood’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ William Rollins, Jr., “Treasures That Dead Men Guard”, part 3 of 3, last of 3 stories with Jack Darrow, 12th of 23 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “The Grey-Green House”, 39th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 40th of 49 total articles in BM
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originally published as And Not for Love by Duell in 1942.
this is an abridged and re-titled edition from 1945

Lawrence Lariar also wrote under the names Adam Knight, Michael Lawrence and Michael Stark
first published in 1943 by Phoenix as Death Paints the Picture, reprinted by Crime Novel Selection as Death is the Host that same year
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