October 1941 issue ~ cover art by Milton Luros

October 1941 issue

cover art by Milton Luros

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D.L. Champion, “The Corpse That Wasn’t There” (Insp. Allhoff)

Norbert Davis, “Come UP and Kill Me Some Time” (Bail Bond Dodd)

Cornell Woolrich, “Murder at Mother’s Knee” (Johnny Gaines)

T.T. Flynn, “Salt Water Slay-Ride”

Jan Dana, “Death with Father” (Acme Indemnity Op)

May 1941 issue

May 1941 issue

[perhaps my favorite cover but do not know the artist – at this point]

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Frederick C. Davis, “Let the Skeletons Rattle” (Bill Brent)

Sam Merwin Jr., “Caviar for the Killer” (Sgt. Lanning)

Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Maladroit Manicurist”

D.L. Champion, “Curtain Call”

O.B. Myers, “Bonds to Burn”

June-July 1949 issue

January 1938 issue ~ cover art by Raymond S. Pease

January 1938 issue

cover art by Raymond S. Pease

~ Dwight V. Babcock, “The Widow Regrets”, 1st of 7 Beeker (“Beek”) stories, 15th of 21 stories in BM

~ Thomas W. Duncan, “The Cat and the Corpse”, ‘Dan Macey’, author’s only story in BM

~ Steve Fisher, “No Gentleman Strangles His Wife”, ‘Kip I. Muldane, p.i. in Hawaiian’, 2nd of 9 stories in BM

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Blood in the Fog”, 31st of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, ‘Black Burton in London’, 38th of 39 stories in BM

~ Roger Torrey, “Relative Trouble”, ‘Shean Connell, private peep; last of 4 SC stories’, 32nd of 50 appearances in BM

~ Cornell Woolrich, “After-Dinner Story”, 9th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM

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October 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

October 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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Mel Cotton, “Kill and Make Up” (Det. Winters)

Talmage Powell, “There Was a Crooked Man”

Cornell Woolrich, “The Fatal Footlights” (reprinted from 1941)

Walter Snow, “Exclusive Sucker”

W.P. Brothers, “Mourner’s Bench”

Harvey Weinstein, “Spoiler for a Wise Guy”

Robert Martin, “Murder on the Make”

1952 Popular Library – cover art by Rudolph Belarski

Cornell Woolrich writing under the pen name William Irish

published in hardcover by Rinehart in 1951, this the later 1952 Popular Library softcover

his last novel published as William Irish

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

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November 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

November 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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~ John Bender, “Mayhem Patrol”, ‘prowl-car cop is 1st-person narrator’, 2nd and last story in BM

~ Richard Deming, “Five O’Clock Shroud”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st-person narrator, 5th of 6 stories in BM

~ William Campbell Gault, “Dead –End for Delia”, last of 9 stories in BM

~ Richard E. Glendinning, “Die, Gypsy, Die!”, ‘Lt. Oscar Daniels, homicide’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Albert Simmons, “Disc-Jockey Dirge”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Robert Turner, “Hell Is What You Make It”, 3rd of 4 stories in BM

~ Cornell Woolrich, “Of Time and Murder”, ‘reprint; not from BM; orig. pub., Detective Fiction Weekly, 15 Mar 1941’, 23rd of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM

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