cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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John Lawrence, “Murder Must Go On!” (Marquis of Broadway)
Carl Clausen, “The Bell of Blackman’s Knob”
Cornell Woolrich, “Meet Me by the Mannequin”
D.L. Champion, “Turn in Your Badge!” (Insp. Allhoff)
Wyatt Blassingame, “The Coral Band”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
~ Frances Beck, “Dig Down Deep”, only story in BM
~ Anthony Boucher [pseud. of William Anthony Parker White], “The Catalyst”, only story by Boucher in BM
~ D.L. Champion, “Spend, Killer, Spend”, 18th of 26 with Rex Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 20th of 30 stories in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Open and Shut”, 21st of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 24th of 32 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “The Witch of Endor County”, 6th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 11th of 23 stories in BM
~ Henry Norton, “Here’s Homicide”, ‘Barney & Brownie, writers of a smash-hit radio whodunnit show with same name’, 5th of 6 stories in BM
~ Michael Sutton, “Jail Will Be Lonely”, Steve Duncan, hotel bouncer, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Fergus Truslow, “Death on Ice”, ‘Hendricks, rookie cop in L.A’, 1st of 6 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[updated and corrected 1/29/26]
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Merle Constiner, “Mr. Bettleman’s Blisters” (The Dean)
D.L. Champion, “A Leg on Murder” (Insp. Allhoff)
Dale Clark, “Necktie Party” (Plates O’Rion)
Marvin L. De Vries, “There Goes the Doctor”
John Lawrence, “Blood Test”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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John Lawrence, “Murder in the Family” (Marquis of Broadway)
Norbert Davis, “Give the Devil His Due” (Max Latin)
C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Footprints on the Ceiling” (Colonel Kaspir)
D.L. Champion, “Tell It to Homicide” (Inspector Allhoff)
Alan Anderson, “Prowl the Night”
March 1945 issue
cover art by Gloria Stoll
~ D.L. Champion, “Dead As in Blonde”, 17th of 26 with Rex Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 19th of 30 stories in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Murder Had a Little Lamb”, 20th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 23rd of 32 stories in BM
~ Merle Constiner, “Until the Undertaker Comes”, ‘Luther McGavock, private detective; he works Atherton Browne who heads a Memphis-based agency, 8th of 11 of the McG stories; usually rural setting’, reprinted in Let the Dead Alone: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Luther McGavock (Steeger, 2020), 8th of 12 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Goon My Way?”, 4th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 9th of 23 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Get Your Own Corpse”, 12th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 19th of 27 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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Carroll John Daly, “The Quick and the Dead” (Race Williams)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Ghoul Hangs High” (Keyhole Kerry)
D.L. Champion, “Lock the Death House Door!”
O.B. Myers, “Don’t Bet on Ghosts” (Doc Kincaid)
Mark Harper, “Frame for a Fall-Guy”
cover art by Peter Stevens
~ D.L. Champion, “Down Payment on Death”, 24th of 26 stories with Rex Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 26th of 30 stories in BM
~ Bruno Fischer, “Middleman for Murder”, ‘Willie, narrator, is blackmailer, etc.’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 3rd of 5 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “The Case of the Sleeping Beauty”, 4th of 5 with PI Mortimer Jones, reprinted in Hot-House Homicide: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Mortimer Jones (Steeger, 2925), 5th of 9 stories in BM
~ R.M.F. Joses, “Red Pearls”, 2nd of 3 with ‘Hollywood private snoop Duane, 1st person narrator’, 2nd of 4 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Call in the Coroner”, last of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 22nd of 23 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Please Kill Me Carefully”, “Ned Healey, L.A. private eye’, 25th of 27 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
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cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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T.T. Flynn, “Hayseed Homicide”
Dale Clark, “Tag! You’re Dead” (Plates O’Rion)
D.L. Champion, “Go Home and Die! (Insp. Allhoff)
Cornell Woolrich, “What the Well-Dressed Corpse Will Wear”
Julius Long, “Accidents Will Happen”
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)
SMB Noir 
