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Day Keene, “Rhapsody in Blood”
Francis K. Allan, “The Dead Are Not Beautiful”
Frederick C. Davis, “Corpses in the Rain”
Fredric Brown, “A Lock of Satan’s Hair”
Robert Turner, “Music for the Murder Maestro”
cover art by A. Rose
~ John Ayotte, “Okolehao”, ‘short-short, ‘A tragedy of Hawaii’, JA’s debut in BM’, 1st of 10 stories
~ Eustace Hale Ball, “The Trail of the Scarlet Fox”, part 4 of 6 parts with various subtitles, 4th of 13 appearances in BM
~ Black Mask Crime Review, ‘A Crime Expert’s Review of the Hall-Mills Tragedy; Article; anonymous;1st segment in this irregular, short-lived Department; no indexed beyond this point’
~ Crowley Conmarr, “Under the Hide of Tu Son”, ‘A Weird Tale’; 1st-person narrator; Chinese character’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Jack J. Gottlieb, “With His Enemies’ Aid”, ‘A Mystery of the D.A.s office’, authors 8th and final story in BM
~ John Hanlon, “The Door”, ‘A Skit with Spirits’, last of 3 stories in BM
~ John Holden, “The Perfect Plan”, ‘Gerald Drago, embezzler’, author’s only story in BM
~ Francis James, “Sinister Images”, Prentice, Harvard-trained criminologist turned policeman (‘the young Central Office Man’) with Police Chief Shannon, 3rd of 4 parts, 5th of 20 appearances in BM
~ Roy L. McCardell, “Pieces of Men”, ‘daytime story’, last of 5 appearances in BM
~ Herman Petersen, “The Ghost Ship”, ‘Complete Mystery Novelette of the Cannibal Isles’, 6th of 20 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “Old Clothes”, ‘fictitious names are given…changed a bit for necessary reasons’, 3rd of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 3rd of 49 total articles in BM
~ Gregory Stragnell, MD, “Our Dreams”, “short-lived Department devoted to ‘one of the newest sciences – psychoanalysis’; not indexed beyond this point”
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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B.B. Fowler, “The Thing That Darkness Spawned”
Emerson Graves, “Murder for Blood”
Russell Gray, “School for Corpses” (Ben Bryn)
Stewart Sterling, “Ten Dead Coppers on the Wall”
Harrison Storm, “Death Visits the Fair”
Dane Gregory, “When the Black Dolls Die”
cover art by Robert Stanley
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Francis K. Allan, “Two Down, Two to Die!”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “The Dead Who Kill Again”
Joe Kent, “Kill, Baby, Kill!”
Larry Holden, “Red Nightmare”
Robert Bloch, “A Head for His Bier!”
Talmage Powell, “To the Last Drop!”
Eric A. Provost, “Make Room for the Corpse!”
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The Editor, “The Coroner Takes Over”
Day Keene, “A Hearse of Another Color” [Silent Smith (The Silver Fox)]
Felix Graham, “Heil, Werewolf!“
William R. Cox, “Spades for the Dead” (Tom Kincaid)
Fredric Brown, “Satan One-and-a-Half”
William Brandon, “Nightmare House”
Russell Gray, “The Caricature Murders”
December 1935 – second issue published
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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