
1951 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art attributed to Barye Phillips
1954 Australian edition from Phantom


1951 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art attributed to Barye Phillips
1954 Australian edition from Phantom


cover art by Rudolph Belarski
better image than previously posted

cover art repurposed for 1950 Popular Library edition of Jonathan Latimer’s The Fifth Grave

1950 Lion paperback original
pen name of Bruno Fischer
cover art by Julian Paul

cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

[post updated 9/30/25]

January 1950 issue
cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted

~ D.L. Champion, “Death for a Dollar”, last of 26 Rex Sackler stories, same title as 3/44, also a Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), last of 30 stories in BM
~ Robert C. Dennis, “Stop, You’re Killing Me!”, ‘Rhodes, shamus’, 6th of 10 stories in BM
~ Bruno Fischer, “The Lady Grooms a Corpse”, last of 5 stories in BM
~ Philip Ketchum, “One Sunk Punk”, last of 3 stories in BM
~ Roy Lopez, “The Murder’s All Mine”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Robert Martin, “Dirge in Bolero Time”, 4th of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective, 6th of 8 stories in BM
~ Marian O’Hearn, “Swansong for an Ugly Duckling”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Herb Schneiderman, “Homicide – According to Hoyle”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Tedd Thomey, “Come Hell or Hot Water”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
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