May 1943 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Cornell Woolrich, “Mind over Murder”
W.T. Ballard, “A Heel of the First Water”
Dale Clark, “Death is from Taxes” (Plates O’Rion)
Duane Yarnell, “Murder is My Meat”
Frederick C. Davis, “Home Sweet Homicide” (Bill Brant)
Henry Norton, “Bait”
[updated 5/14/25]
cover art by Gloria Stoll
better image than previously posted
~ Dale Clark, “Heir in the Air”, 22nd of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 25th of 32 stories in BM
~ Brett Halliday (pseud. of David Dresser), “Dead Man’s Diary”, 2nd of 2 Mike Shayne stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Over My Dead Body”, 7th of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 12th of 23 stories in BM
~ Robert Reeves, “Alcoholics Calamitous”, last of 10 Cellini Smith appearances, last of 12 appearances in BM
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Captain’s Shot, Detective Fiction Weekly, February 25, 1939
Oil on canvas, 28 x 24 inches (71.1 x 61.0 cm)
Signed center right
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
~ Dale Clark, “The Early Corpse Gets the Worm”, 25th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 28th of 32 stories in BM
~ Harry Epstein, “The Case of the Mind-Reading Seal”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Julius Long, “Murder By the Carton”, 12th of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 17th of 23 stories in BM
~ James R. McKenna, “Caliente”, short-short, horse racing, 1st person narrator, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Robert Martin, “Rat Race in Foxtown”, ‘Foxtown is 45 miles SW of Cleveland’, 1st of 8 stories in BM
~ Jim T. Pearce, “Always Leave ‘Em Dying”, author’s sold appearance in BM
~ William Rough, “My Gun Hires Legitimate”, ‘Ben Slabbe, p.i., who has his own agency; 3rd of 5 capers’ in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Unholy Matrimony”, 23rd of 27 stories in BM
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[US cover updated 1/29/26]
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
~ Dale Clark, “The Sound of the Shot”, 26th of 28 stories with O’Hanna, ‘with movie people & Hollywood beauty contest’, 30th of 32 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “Hot-House Homicide”, ‘debut of Mortimer Jones (Jonesy), private cop, narrator, drives a Duesenberg’, 1st of 9 stories in BM
~ C.M. (Cyril) Kornbluth, “Beer-Bottle Polka”, ‘Tim Skeat, private cop, 1st person narrator, in NYC’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 1st of 2 stories in BM, both with Skeat
~ Julius Long, “This Is Murder”, 14th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 19th of 23 stories in BM
~ William Rough, “Don’t Burn Your Corpses Behind You”, ‘Ben Slabbe, p.i., who has his own agency; 4th of 5 capers’ in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
cover art by Gloria Stoll
better image than previously posted
~ Dale Clark, “I Ain’t Got No Body”, 23rd of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 26th of 32 stories in BM
~ Merle Constiner, “Hand Me Down My Thirty-Eight”, ‘Luther McGavock, private detective; he works Atherton Browne who heads a Memphis-based agency, 9th of 11 of the McG stories; usually rural setting’ 10th of 12 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Date with Dynamite”, 9th of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 14th of 23 stories in BM
~ C.G. Tahney, [pseud of Charles Green, not to be confused with Charles M. Green], “There’s Dough in Murder”, Nickie, aka ‘Sherlock in short pants’, last of 5 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
~ Dale Clark, “Heavenly Homicide”, 27th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 31st of 32 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “The Cold, Cold Ground”, 2nd of 5 with Mortimer Jones, 2nd of 9 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “I Remember Murder”, 15th of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 20th of 23 stories in BM
~ Donn Mullally, “The Corpse I Left Behind Me”, ’Martin Fowler in Hollywood’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ William Rough, “Hot Ice”, ‘Ben Slabbe, p.i., who has his own agency; last of 5 capers’ in BM
~ Donegan Wiggins, “The Double-Cross”, ‘brief-brief’, author’s only appearance in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[UK cover added 5/16/25]
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