
March 22, 1937
cover art by V.E. Pyles


March 22, 1937
cover art by V.E. Pyles



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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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[updated 3/1/26]

1950, Readers Choice Library #12
cover art by Wayne Blickenstaff
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cover art by John Drew
~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Fish to Fry”, 1st of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, author’s debut in BM
~ John Onslow, “The Damned Rookie”, ‘Larry Brogan, rookie cop’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Lay Off, O’Hara”, 4th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 5th of 27 stories in BM
~ MacAllister Street, “$1000 a Day”, ‘Hade, private ‘tec’, only appearance in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Murder’s Never Funny”, ‘3rd (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 25th of 50 appearances in BM
~ Donald Wandrei, “The Rod and the Staff”, ‘short-short’, 1st of 6 stories in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Murder on the Night Boat”, ‘police dick on honeymoon; Sergeant James Q. Bradford’, 2nd of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
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cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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T.T. Flynn, “Murder in a Dead Heat” (Mr. Maddox)
C.P. Donnell, Jr., ‘The Sweet Waters of Death” (Colonel Kaspir)
Cornell Woolrich, “The Body in Grant’s Tomb”
D.L. Champion, “The Grave Brings Silence”

Cornell Woolrich writing as William Irish
Somebody on the Phone, 1950 Lippincott hardcover
this the 1951 Graphic paperback reissued with a new title
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April 1944 – cover repurposed from April 1935, the only difference is the “Painter Publication” box over the month
cover art by Enoch Bolles
stories included “Spanish—and What Eyes!” by Cornell Woolrich