cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Lethal Lulu” (Cash Wale)
W. Lee Herrington, “Who’ll Carry My Coffin?”
John D. MacDonald, “My Husband Dies Slowly”
Roy Sparkia, “Satan’s Scapegoat”
Robert Canton, “No Bones About It” (P.I. Kent)
Stanley C. Vickers, “Pushover for Purgatory”
Bruce Cassiday, “Doubled in Danger”
February 1944 Canadian issue
November 1943 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
~ William E. Brandon, “It’s So Peaceful in the Country”, ‘Horse Luvnik, ex-con goes to work for academic types, reprinted in The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977)’, last of 7 stories in BM
~ Merle Constiner, “Kill One, Skip One” ‘Luther McGavock, private detective; he works Atherton Browne who heads a Memphis-based agency, 5th of 11 of the McG stories; usually rural setting’, reprinted in Let the Dead Alone: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Luther McGavock (Steeger, 2020), 5th of 12 stories in BM
~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “So Red the Ruby”, ‘Privates Maguire & Caldwell on a 3-day leave in NYC’, 16th of 20 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “The Devil’s Jack-Pot”, ‘Addison Secore, criminal lawyer, is villain‘, 4th of 23 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Two Rings for Murder”, ‘Sam South, loan company proprietor, & Nazi spies’, 18th of 27 stories in BM
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