cover art by Emmett Watson
Tag: dale clark
December 1936 issue
January 1940 issue ~ cover art by Emmett Watson
July 1945 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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]
March 1939 issue
April 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
cover art by Tom Lovell
better image than previously posted
Arthur Leo Zagat, Girl for the Torture God
Dale Clark, “Death’s Painted Priestess”
Paul Ernst, Satan’s Servant
Emerson Graves. “Come with Me to Hell!”
Roger Howard Norton, “Desire of the Undead”
Wyatt Blassingame, My Love Brings Death!
Arthur J. Burks, Invitation to the Morgue
William B. Rainey, “Prey of the Beast-Woman”
March 1947 issue ~ cover art by Albert Drake
cover art by Albert Drake
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~ Dale Clark, “The Corpse with the Bloody Nose”, last of 28 O’Hanna stories, last of 32 appearances in BM
~ Merle Constiner, “Dead on Arrival”, ‘Luther McGavock, private detective; he works Atherton Browne who heads a Memphis-based agency, 10th 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), 11th of 12 stories in BM
~ Robert C. Dennis, “Out of This World”, 2nd of 6 with ‘William (Willie) Carmody, Confidential Investigations & Margaret O’Leary, writer, Hollywood, WC is first-person narrator’, 2nd of 10 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “A Murder for Mac”, reprinted in Hot-House Homicide: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Mortimer Jones (Steeger, 2925), 2nd of 5 with PI Mortimer Jones, 3rd of 9 stories in BM
~ Coleman Meyer, “You’ll Never Grow Old”, ‘Hill Cartright, auto racer, tells it’, author’s 1st of 2 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
January 1947 issue
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Day Keene, “Married to Murder!“
John Raymond English, “Black Monday”
Joe Kent, “Collect for the Corpse!“
Ken Lewis, “The Path Points Down”
Dale Clark, “The Possessed”
Everett M. Webber, “Crowbait”
Francis K. Allan, “The Face of Fear”
Talmage Powell, “Swamp Fever”
Stewart Toland, “Murder Has a Hundred Faces”
– Peacock listed on cover but not in contents –
November 1942 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
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”
February 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
cover by Tom Lovell
better image than previously posted
Hugh B. Cave, “Death Holds for Ransom
Dale Clark, “My Friend—The Corpse”
Paul Ernst, “Embrace of the Fire God”
Roger Howard Norton, “The Woman Hell Gave Me”
Wyatt Blassingame, “Slaves of the Tomb Maidens”
Ben Judson, “The Beast in Her Bed!“
Emerson Graves, “Pale Daughters of Death”
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