
October 1945 Canadian issue

1935 Knopf hardcover, 1946 Dell map back reissue
1st novel with photographer Kent Murdock
cover art by George A. Frederiksen
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cover artist by Robert Stanley
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movie poster – Wicked – Oct 1931
artist unknown (??orge ??uere = George Bruere?)

Wicked (1931) is an American Pre-Code prison melodrama about a woman who commits murder while trying to save her bandit husband and bears a child in prison

cover art by J. W. Schlaikjer
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~ Galen C. Colin, “Wrong Font Brands”, ‘Pica Slim, tramp printer’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “Murder by Mail”, 38th of 53 with Race Williams, ‘vs. Bull Lowery’, 50th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “The Man in White”, 2nd of 6 parts in the ‘Rainbow Diamonds’ sequence that take Jo Gar from Manila to San Francisco, 11th of 24 Gar stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)
~ Grimes Hill (pseud. of Frederick Lewis Nebel), “The Kill”, 1st of 2 stories in this issue by the author, 1st of 2 stories under this name in BM, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014),
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Junk”, 13th of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy ‘fighting river pirates’, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kenney, v.2 (Altus, 2013), 30 of 67 Nebel stories in BM
~ James P. Olsen, “Who Knows?”, 5th of 6 Western stories in BM
~ Joseph T. Shaw, “Derelict”, 2nd of 4-part serialization of his 1930 novel, ‘murder, romance and disaster on a deserted ocean liner’, 3rd of 9 fiction pieces in BM
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Alexis Smith is a woman not to be trifled with in ‘Undercover Girl’.