May 1949 issue

May 1949 issue

cover art attributed to both Norman Saunders and Peter Stevens

~ Ed Barcelo, “Suicidal Slay Ride”, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Bruno Fischer, “Five O’Clock Menace”, ‘1st-person narrator in barber’s chair, reprinted, The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977)’, 4th of 5 stories in BM

~ John P. Foran, “Copper, Come Back to Me”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ John D. MacDonald, “Murder in One Syllable”, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 4th of 6 stories in BM

~ Robert Martin, “Death’s Glass Slipper”, 2nd of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective’, 4th of 8 stories in BM

~ Marian O’Hearn, “Diary of a Deadly Dame”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Fergus Truslow, “Pardon My Poison Platters”, ‘the record business’, last of 6 stories in BM

©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

[updated 3/1/26]

April 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

April 1943 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “A Horse of Another Killer, (Mr. Maddox)

C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Fingers of Ice” (Colonel Kaspir)

Norbert Davis, “Too Many Have Died” (Peter Tracy)

William Brandon, “Quiet Street”

Mark Lish, “Ashes in the Valley”