
cover art by Rafael DeSoto

cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Carroll John Daly, “Red Dynamite” (Vee Brown)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Corpse’s Bride” (Carter Cole, MD)
T.T. Flynn, “Murder Moon”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Other Bullet” (Kip Lacey)
William E. Barrett, “Death on the Double-O” (Blue Barrel)


cover art by William Grotz
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~ Christopher B. Booth, “The Curse of Chester Whitaker”, 2nd of 5 BM stories
~ Hamilton Craigie, “Above Suspicion”, 3rd of 7 solo stories in BM
~ Eric A. Darling, “The Man in the Astrakhan Coat”, Parisian amateur sleuth Dale Owen, 3rd of 5 stories in BM
~ Thomas A. Hanley, “The Mysterious Terror”, ‘horror tale, featuring a beast, The Unnamable’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ J.B. Hawley, “The Man O’Leary Couldn’t Catch”, ‘NYPD Lt. O’Leary & jewel thief’, 2nd of 12 stories in BM
~ Albert MacCray, “In the Shadows of the Jungle”, ‘set in Borneo; Chinese, et al.’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Charles McDonnel, “The Crimson Scars”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Roylston Markham, “The Scar of the Gibbering Imp”, ‘short-short‘, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “The Safe in the Library”, ‘crookdom, complete with criminal argot’, 5th of 29 stories in BM
~ Lewis H. Moulton, “The Voice of the Dead Man”, ‘short-short’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Anthony M. Rud, “The Silver Screw”, ‘”Complete Mystery Novelette”; set in Ivory Coast (Africa)’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Harold Ward, “The Man Who Returned”, 7th of 29 stories under this name in BM [11th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Ward Sterling and H.W. Starr]
~ Samuel Wilcox, “The Witness”, ‘short-short’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Arthur Seymour Witt, “The Crawling Crime”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

#5, October 1952 – Final issue of the series, fifth of five

cover art by John Fleming Gould
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Carroll John Daly, “The White-Headed Corpse” (Race Williams)
Michael Sutton, “The Devil’s Portrait”
Jan Dana, “Too Week to Kill” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Dale Clark, “The Short and Merry One”
Roger Torrey, “Fire Test”
Maurice Beam, “Mind Over Matter”
Robert K. Adams, “Curtain Call”
D.L. Champion, “Dumb Dick”