
1948 Rinehart hardcover, his 6th “Black” title
cover art by William Wirtz
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1948 Rinehart hardcover, his 6th “Black” title
cover art by William Wirtz
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cover art by Malvin Singer
~ D.L. Champion, “Padlocked Pockets”, 23rd if 26 with Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 25th of 30 stories in BM
~ Ed Edstrom, “Never Call the Cops”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Bruno Fischer, “A Killer in the Crowd”, ‘1st-person; homicide lieutenant, NYPD’, 2nd of 5 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “The Constant Shadow”, 4th of 9 stories in BM
~ Henry Norton, “High Voltage Homicide”, ‘Lee Bassler, ‘phone company trouble-shooter’, last of 6 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Murder’s No Libel”, last of 14 with Ken O’Hara, ‘now press agent for Hotel Diplomat’, 24th of 27 stories in BM
~ Michael Sutton, “Concerto for Guns”, ‘Johnny Dillon, LA private ‘tec, 1st person narrator‘, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
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cover art by H.J. Ward
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altered version of March 1938 issue of Spicy Mystery



cover art by Rafael DeSoto, oil on board, 26 x 18.5 in.
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H.H. Stinson, “A Window in My Coffin” (PI Kerry Monahan)
Peter Paige, “Death – On the House”
John D. MacDonald, “Suicidal Journey”
Ken Kessler, “Operation Murder”
Seymour Irving Richin, “Violence for Vicky”
Stanley C. Vickers, “Noose of Retribution”
Edward William Murphy, “Killings on the Conscience”


1938 Putnam hardcover movie tie-in

debut mystery and first with The Great Merlini, magician and sleuth
cover art by Gerald Gregg

2018 American Mystery Classics edition


1946 Doubleday hardcover, this the later 1948 Dell mapback release
author’s only mystery, at least under this name
cover art by Earl Sherwan/mapback by Ruth Belew
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