August 1948 issue
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cover art by Norman Saunders
Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams’ Double Date”
Paula Elliott, “Salt on a Siren’s Trail” (Boden)
John D. MacDonald, “Cavaliers Make Good Corpse”
Don James, “Quick Buck – Quick Kill”
Roderick Lull, “Gentleman’s Vengeance”
Ted Stratton, “Butterfly’s Bier”
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cover art by Malvin Singer
Carroll John Daly, “Just Another Stiff” (Race Williams)
Fred MacIsaac, “Cat’s-Paw for Murder” (Rambler Murphy)
Frederick Nebel, “Lead Poison” (Cardigan)
Cornell Woolrich, “The Living Lie Down with the Dead”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Flying Diamond”
May, 1939
cover art by J. George Janes
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~ Carroll John Daly, “Murder Made Easy”, ‘Clay Holt’, 68th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Frank Gruber, “Funny Man”, 8th of 10with ‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, ’Quade in Hollywood; see p. 5 for letter from FG on OG’, 12th of 14 stories in BM
~ H. Randolph Peacock, “Bare Facts”, ‘nudist camp setting; epistolary style’, last of 4 stories in BM
~ Stewart Sterling (pseud. of Prentice Winchell), “Strictly for Suckers”, 1st of 3 stories with Vince Mallie, debut in BM, 1st of 12 stories
~ Emile C. Tepperman, “Death of Sale”, ‘vacuum cleaner salesman’, last of 3 stories in BM
~ K. Webster, “Prison Break”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
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November 1929 issue, Joseph T. Shaw, editor
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cover painting by J.W. Schlaikjer
Frederick Nebel, “Hell-Smoke” (Capt. MacBride novelette)
Dashiell Hammett, “The Maltese Falcon” (part two of the serialized novel before publication as a novel – first appearance of this section- not even mentioned on the cover)
Earl and Marion Scott, “The Second Spartan”
Carroll John Daly, “The Silver Eagle” (Race Williams novelette)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Brass Tacks” (Ed Jenkins novelette)
Tom Curry, “The Man from Headquarters”
Henry Wallace Phillips, “The Demon in the Canyon”
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