cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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H.H. Stinson, “Slay Binge” (Pete Rousseau)
Robert Martin, “G.I. Doublecross” (Jim Bennett)
Dale Clark, “Corpse on Parade” (High Price)
Thorne Lee, “The Whisperer”
Ralph Eldred, “Death Watch”
Ken Lewis, “This May Hurt a Little”
cover art by James Lunnon
~ W.T. Ballard, “No Parole from Death”, 20th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 31st of 43 stories in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Death Watch”, Scotland Yard undercover man Carr, politics and murder, 2nd of 32 stories in BM
~ Frederick C. Davis, “Tonight I Must Die”, 7th of 16 stories in BM
~ Steve Fisher, “Flight to Paris”, 8th of 9 stories in BM
~ Frank Gruber, “State Fair Murder”, 7th of 10 with‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, 10th of 14 stories in BM
~ K. Webster, “Underwater Kill”, ‘cop goes under sea-surface to nab his man’, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Edward S. Williams, “Deadly Secret”, ‘Rex Flynn, private dick’, 4th of 8 appearances in BM
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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
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cover art by Gloria Stoll
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~ Thomson Burtis, “Deadline for Death”, ex-USA intelligence officer, now police Lt. Greg Sullivan, last of 6 appearances in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Murder Lode”, 24th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 27th of 32 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Flowers for Flanagan”, 10th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 15th of 23 stories in BM
~ Roland Phillips, “The Sentinel of Green Cove”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ William Rough, “Shoot If You Must”, ‘Ben Slabbe, p.i., who has his own agency; 2nd of 5 capers’ in BM
~ Ted Stratton, “Accounts Deceivable”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
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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 Tom Lovell
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Frederick C. Davis, “The Coming of the Mad Ones”
Paul Ernst, “Corpses in the Barn”
H.M. Appel, “We Are the Damned”
Clark Clayton, “Breakfast for the Dying”
Dale Clark, “Hounds of the Restless Dead”
Wayne Rogers, “Satan’s Slave Market”
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
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