cover art by John Fleming Gould
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Carroll John Daly, “The White-Headed Corpse” (Race Williams)
Michael Sutton, “The Devil’s Portrait”
Jan Dana, “Too Week to Kill” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Dale Clark, “The Short and Merry One”
Roger Torrey, “Fire Test”
Maurice Beam, “Mind Over Matter”
Robert K. Adams, “Curtain Call”
D.L. Champion, “Dumb Dick”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Peter Paige, “The Riddle of Pap Rio” (Cash Wale)
H.H. Stinson, “The Good-Murder Policy” (Pete Rousseau)
D.L. Champion, “One Killer Too Many” (Insp. Allhoff)
Frederick C. Davis, “All This and Homicide Too” (Sam Squire of the Drumm Agency)
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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~ Francis K. Allan, “That Second Answer”, ‘Shamus Tim Hall of Hall & Branch, NYC; info on FKA, p.8’, 1st of 2 stories in BM, but only original appearance
~ D.L. Champion, “Murder By the Ears”, 10th of 26 with Rex Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 11th of 30 stories in BM
~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Blood on the Book”, 11th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps, 11th of 20 stories in BM
~ John Lawrence, “Detour to Death”, last of 14 appearances in BM
~ Curt Siodmak, “Donovan’s Brain”, 2nd of 3 parts, serialization of the novel published in 1943, only 3 appearances in BM by the author and director
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cover art by John Fleming Gould?
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D.L. Champion, “Cover the Corpse’s Eyes” (Insp. Allhoff)
Cornell Woolrich, “Charlie Won’t Be Home Tonight”
Sam Merwin, Jr., “Murder for Syndication”
Jan Dana, “The Second Loop” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Leslie T. White, “Me and My Shadow” (Omar MacKenzie)
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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~ D.L. Champion, “Split Fee”, 4th of 26 with Sackler, 5th of 30 stories in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Hot Towels”, 5th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 7th of 32 stories in BM
~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Death Do Us Part”, 4th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps psychiatrist, 4th of 20 stories in BM
~ Robert Reeves, “The Cat with a Headache”, 5th of 10 with PI Cellini Smith, reprinted in Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith (Steeger, 2020), 6th of 12 appearances in BM
~ Stewart Sterling, “Over My Dead Body”, 4th of 9 stories with ‘Special Squad (Bomb & Forgery); see p.8 for note by SS on story’, 7th of 12 stories under this name in BM [Sterling and Stirling were pen names of Nathaniel Prentice Winchell, 20 total stories in BM]
~ Roger Torrey, “Snakes in the Grass”, ‘3rd of Bryant (4 stories), a regular U.S. Army man, who works in a CCC camp; 1st-person narrator’, ‘- in a Southern CCC camp’, 49th of 50 appearances in BM
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reprint of June 1941 US issue
April 1946 issue
cover art by Samuel Cherry
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D.L. Champion, “No Place Like Homicide” (Mariano Mercado)
Julius Long, “The Needle and the Hood” (C.D. Mort)
John Knox, “Home is Where the Hearse Is”
Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Double” (Doc Pierce)
Roland Phillips, “Murder Rides a Broomstick”
A. Boyd Correll, “Lethal Legacy”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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D.L. Champion, “Death in the Sun” (Mariano Mercado)
C. William Harrison, “Killing is a Grave Business” (Hannibal Smith)
E. Hoffman Price, “Esprit De Corpse” (Lucky Nolan)
Stanley C. Vickers, “The Dolly Shaft Rebellion” (Jerry Slagle)
Julius Long, “Loaded for Murder” (C.D. Mort)
William R. Cox, “Shame on Malacci!” (Malachi Manatee)
cover art by Malvin Singer
~ D.L. Champion, “Padlocked Pockets”, 23rd if 26 with Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 25th of 30 stories in BM
~ Ed Edstrom, “Never Call the Cops”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Bruno Fischer, “A Killer in the Crowd”, ‘1st-person; homicide lieutenant, NYPD’, 2nd of 5 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “The Constant Shadow”, 4th of 9 stories in BM
~ Henry Norton, “High Voltage Homicide”, ‘Lee Bassler, ‘phone company trouble-shooter’, last of 6 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Murder’s No Libel”, last of 14 with Ken O’Hara, ‘now press agent for Hotel Diplomat’, 24th of 27 stories in BM
~ Michael Sutton, “Concerto for Guns”, ‘Johnny Dillon, LA private ‘tec, 1st person narrator‘, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
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cover art by Samuel Cherry
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G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Medium Dead” (Jeffrey Wren )
T.T. Flynn, “Murder in the Saddle” (Mr. Maddox)
D.L. Champion, “A Toast to the Killer” (Mariano Mercado)
Fergus Truslow, “The Corpse in a Golden Shay”
Jean Prentice, “The Perfectionist
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