May 1943 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Cornell Woolrich, “Mind over Murder”
W.T. Ballard, “A Heel of the First Water”
Dale Clark, “Death is from Taxes” (Plates O’Rion)
Duane Yarnell, “Murder is My Meat”
Frederick C. Davis, “Home Sweet Homicide” (Bill Brant)
Henry Norton, “Bait”
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1940 Simon and Schuster hardcover as The Bride Wore Black, first novel and the beginning of his “Black” title run
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August 1961 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine
December 1939 issue
cover art by Edgar A. Whitney
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~ Dwight V. Babcock, “Blood in the Snow”, Beeker (7th and last Beeker story), DVB’s 21st and last BM story
~ William R. Cox, “Accounting in Blood”, CCC bookkeeper, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Bayard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Clear As Crystal”, 12th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida
~ Peter Paige, “Swastika Scourge”, ’Nazi spies on the high seas; see p. 111 for letter from PP’, 2nd of 12 stories in BM
~ Stewart Sterling (pseud. of Prentice Winchell), “Straight Across the Board”, last of 3 stories with Vince Mallie, ‘at the races’, 3rd of 12 stories
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Through a Dead Man’s Eye”, ‘boy vs. murderer’, 15th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
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cover art by J. George Janes
~ W.T. Ballard, “Only Proof Counts”, last of 7 with ‘Red Drake, undercover investigator for the State Racing Commission, 1st-person narrator’, 29th of 43 stories in BM
~ Norbert Davis, “Murder in Two Parts”, ‘Brent’, 7th of 13 stories in BM
~ Frank Gruber, “Death on Eagle’s Craig”, 3rd of 10 with ‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, reprinted in The Hardboiled Dicks (1965), reprinted in The Hardboiled Dicks (1965), 4th of 14 stories in BM
~ Eric Howard, “Copper, Have a Heart”, 4th of 6 story in BM
~ John Lawrence, “Club Fighter”, 1st of 2 stories with ‘Barron Hargraft & boxing in Detroit & NYC‘, 3rd of 14 stories in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Dusk to Dawn”, ‘Lew Stahl’, 8th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
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1946 film noir directed by Harold Clerman, screenplay by Clifford Odets from a novel by Cornell Woolrich
cover art by Edgar A. Whitney
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~ Dwight V. Babcock, “Murder on the Gayway”, 6th of 7 Beeker stories, ‘SF World’s Fair, Treasure Island Nude Ranch’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 20th of 21 stories in BM
~ William Cole, “Waiting for Rusty”, ‘short-short’, only appearance in BM
~ Tiah Devitt, “The Haunted Inn”, last of 2 stories in BM
~ Mark Harper, “Death Rides Double”, ‘motorcycle cop’, pseudonym of Joseph T. Shaw, editor of BM, only fiction to appear under this name in the magazine
~ Fred Hodgkins, “Strangle-Hold”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “Moron’s Holiday”, last of 29 stories in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Kill That Witness”, ‘12th (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’, 39th of 50 appearances in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Collared”, ‘see p.31 for letter from CW on this story’, 14th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
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