
June 1940 – premiere issue

June 1940 – premiere issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer
better image than previously posted
Arthur Leo Zagat, “Garden of the Dying”
Robert C. Blackmon, “Midnight Madness”
Nat Schachner, “Marble Murderer”
H. M. Appel, “Mother of Monsters”
Wyatt Blassingame, “Blood on Her Lips” (Ed “Flying Hawk” Jones)
Wayne Rogers, “New Corpses for Old!”


cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
~ Dale Clark, “Heavenly Homicide”, 27th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 31st of 32 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “The Cold, Cold Ground”, 2nd of 5 with Mortimer Jones, 2nd of 9 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “I Remember Murder”, 15th of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 20th of 23 stories in BM
~ Donn Mullally, “The Corpse I Left Behind Me”, ’Martin Fowler in Hollywood’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ William Rough, “Hot Ice”, ‘Ben Slabbe, p.i., who has his own agency; last of 5 capers’ in BM
~ Donegan Wiggins, “The Double-Cross”, ‘brief-brief’, author’s only appearance in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

[UK cover added 5/16/25]

Gouache on board, 12.25 x 9.5 in. (sight)
Signed lower right
paperback cover for Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay, Avon, 1966.

1952 Harper hardcover in the US
Winner of the first ever Edgar Award for Best Novel, 1954