cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Frederick C. Davis, “Death Wears Red Heels” (Bill Brent)
T.T. Flynn, “Calamity Lou” (Mr. Maddox)
D.L. Champion, “The Vanishing American” (Mariano Mercado)
Fergus Truslow, “Knit One – Kill Two”
Julius Long, “Nobody Cried”
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cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Day Keene, “Sweet Tooth of Murder”
Frederick C. Davis, “Boomerang Scoop” (Bill Brent)
D.L. Champion, “Shake Well Before Dying” (Insp. Allhoff)
Nelson A. Hutton, “Killer’s Dead End”
Georges Carousso, “The Potter’s Hand”
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Watercolor on Illustration Board, Image Size: 9″ x 12.5″ an a board measuring 13.25″ x 17.25″
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Frederick C. Davis, “Where There’s a Will There’s a Stay” (Barney Chance)
E. Hoffman Price, “My Body Lies Over the Ocean” (Hank Brewer)
D.L. Champion, “Upstairs to Murder” (Insp. Allhoff)
Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Switch” (Doc Pierce)
Robert C. Dennis, “Too Cold to Live”
K. Webster, “Clock-out for Death”
Joel Murcott, “Big Killing”
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first of three published issues – the fourth was never released
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cover art by John Fleming Gould
Carroll John Daly, “A Corpse for a Corpse” (Race Williams)
Will McMorrow, “The House with the Red Door)
D.L. Champion, “Footprints on a Brain” (Insp. Allhoff)
T.T. Flynn, “Mr. Maddox and the Gray Ghost”
Jan Dana, “Murder for Not Much”
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November 1945 issue
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cover art by Rafael DeSoto
~ D.L. Champion, “Money Makes the Mare Go”, 19th of 26 with Sackler, ‘here dubbed “The Shylock of the Shamuses”’, 21st of 30 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Never Kid a Killing”, 8th of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 13th of 23 stories in BM
~ E. Hoffmann Price, “I’ll Be Slaying You”, ‘Dave Stanton in military service; Bagdad, California’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Your Corpses Are Showing”, 13th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles’ Tribune, 21st of 27 stories in BM
~ Fergus Truslow, “Hardboot Homicide”, ‘ex-jockey Nick Apelman’, 2nd of 6 stories in BM
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