
1940 Scribner hardcover, 1944 Dell paperback
cover art by Gerald Gregg
better image than previously posted

1940 Scribner hardcover, 1944 Dell paperback
cover art by Gerald Gregg
better image than previously posted

another source dates this as #6, 195?, but the stories are from the June 1953 US edition. would need the title page of the UK copy to know the date. same cover art for both.

cover art by Norman Saunders
~ Richard Deming, “Big Shots Die Young”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st-person narrator, 4th of 6 stories in BM
~ Frank Gordon, “Last Kill and Testament”, ‘Alphonse Bertillon’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ W. Lee Herrington, [also published in BM as Alan Farley], “Die, Die Again”, last of 4 stories under this name in BM
~ Edward A. Herron, “Death’s 43 Days”, ‘Yukon short-short’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ John D. MacDonald, “Heritage of Hate”, 5th of 6 stories in BM
~ Larry J. Marcus, “Through the Murder Glass”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Robert Martin, “Richest Man in Graveyard”, 3rd of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective‘, 5th of 8 stories in BM
~ Talmage Powell, “Her Dagger Before Me”, ‘Tampa (Florida) p.i. Lloyd’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), author’s only appearance in BM
~ Harold Preece, “Boulevard Buzzards”, ‘short-short; Paris in 1880’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Robert P. Toombs, “These Dead Hands Reaching”, 1st of 3 stories in BM
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