cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “The Evil Brand” (Val Easton)
Eric Taylor, “Scarlet Wake” (Jim Kern)
Frederick Nebel, “Pardon My Murder” (Cardigan)
Max Brand, “The Unnumbered Door” (Dave Clovelly)
Cornell Woolrich, “Preview of Death” [revised into “Murder Before the Camera”] (Det. Galbraith)
Sam Powell, “Blood Storm”
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
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cover art by Fred Craft
~ W.T. Ballard, “Snatching Is Dynamite”, ‘Lennox & ‘The Secret Five’ of Hollywood’, 9th of 27 BM stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 9th of 43 stories in BM
~ Raymond Chandler, “Finger Man”, “Finger Man”, unnamed LA PI, first person narrator, first book appearance in the collection The Simple Art of Murder (Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 1950), first paperback, Trouble is My Business (Pocket, 10/51), various paperback editions, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 3rd of 11 stories in BM
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Immunity Murders”, 21th of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, with his wife Vivian, 28th of 39 stories in BM
~ Horace McCoy, “Somebody Must Die”, last of 14 Frost stories with ‘Capt. Jerry Frost, Texas (Air) Ranger, last of 17 appearances in BM
~ Thomas Walsh, “Best Man”, ‘Carver, plain-clothesman, Homicide; reprinted in The Hard-Boiled Omnibus (1946)’, 4th of 6 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[updated 1/25/26]
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
John H. Knox, “The Soul Eaters”
William B. Rainey, “The Black Pit”
Hugh B. Cave, “Death in the Dark”
G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “The Swamp Wolf”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “One Night of Terror”
Frances Bragg Middleton, “The Corpse Came Back!”
Wyatt Blassingame, “Death Blisters”
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Russell Gray, “Murder Has One Eye” (Ben Bryn)
Francis James, “Flesh for Neptune’s Harem”
W. Wayne Robbins, “Evil Lives in My Hands”
Stewart Sterling, “Men with Melting Flesh”, given as “Men with Rotting Flesh” on the cover
Ralston Shields, “Death Deals in Souls”
Harrison Storm, “Corpse-Fever”
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