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April 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

April 1939 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

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T.T. Flynn, “The Devil’s Derby” (Mr. Maddox)

Raymond Chandler, “Pearls are a Nuisance”

Fred MacIsaac, “Murder at the Beauty Show” (Rambler Murphy)

John Lawrence, “Old Wives’ Tale” (Marquis of Broadway)

Dale Clark, “Mercy Killing”

with a simple listing of his name on the cover, along with those of his colleagues, the editors could not have been aware that they were publishing one of Raymond Chandler’s masterpieces. The Big Sleep had been published just two months before, on February 6.

November 1936 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

November 1936 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

November 1936 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

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Frederick Nebel, “Make Mine Murder” (Cardigan), reprinted in The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 4 (Altus Press, 2012)

Leslie T. White, “So You Won’t Talk, Eh?” (Duke Martindel)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Two Sticks of Death” (Small, Weston & Burke)

Fred MacIsaac, “The Corpse in the Taxicab” (Rainbow Murphy)

“The Tongueless Men”

 – Chapter 1: John Lawrence, “The Blonde with the Purple Tongue”

 – Chapter 2: T.T. Flynn, “The Vanishing Prelate”

 – Chapter 3: Carroll John Daly, “The Broken Bank”

 – Chapter 4: Frederick C. Davis, “The Lost Stairway”

 – Chapter 5: Warren E. Barrett, “Only Two Swords”

[Taylor notes in his Companion: ” This is the fifth anniversary issue. To celebrate, a contest was built around a round-robin story, ‘The Tongueless Men’, where readers were supposed to identify which writer did each chapter.“]

November 1937 issue

November 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer?

Leslie T. White, “Corpse Crazy” (Duke Martindel)

Raymond Chandler, “Mandarin’s Jade” (John Dalmas)

John K. Butler, “The Pied Piper of Frisco” (Rex Lonergan)

Hugh B. Cave, “Twenty After Murder” (Jitters Johnson)

Jan Dana, “Dead Failure”

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October 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

October 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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T.T. Flynn, “The Ghost Whistle” (Bill Wallace)

Frederick Nebel, “Death in the Raw” (Cardigan)

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Chain” (Needle Mike)

Frederick C. Davis,“The Case of the Skinned Man” (Carter Cole, MD)

O.B. Myers, “The Corpse Master” (Det. Cutter)

March 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

March 1939 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

Carroll John Daly, “Hell with the Lid Lifted” (Race Williams)

John Lawrence, “The Stars Said Murder” (Marquis of Broadway)

William Edward Hayes, “The Farraday Phantom”

O.B. Myers, “The Body in Booth One”

Wyatt Blassingame, “The Corpse Played Possum”

Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr., “Death Racket” (reprinted in 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, 1993)

December 1932 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

December 1932 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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T.T. Flynn, “The Black Doctor” (Val Easton, Secret Service)

Frederick Nebel, “A Truck Load of Diamonds” (Cardigan)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Marked Money” (Dane Skarle)

Richard J. Credicott, “The Three Horrible Heads” (Anthony Fletcher)

Joseph Mulvaney, “Smart Like a Fox” (Oscar Fox)

November 15, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

November 15, 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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T.T. Flynn, “The Jade Joss” (Val Easton v. Black Doctor)

Russ Meservey, “The Swamp Lake Horrors” (Link Nace)

Frederick Nebel, “Murder a la Carte” (Cardigan)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Cross-Stitch Killer” (Paul Pry)

Photo and profile of Russ Meservey appeared on pg. 123

July 1949 issue ~ cover art by Albert Drake

July 1949 issue

cover art by Albert Drake

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Mel Cotton, “No Time to Burn”

Bruce Cassiday, “Hellcat of Homicide Highway”

John D. MacDonald, “A Corpse-Maker Goes Courting”

Peter Paige, “Coffin Cure”

Johanas L. Bouma, “I’ll Be Killing You”

Robert Turner, “Kiss and Kill”

December 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

December 1948 issue

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cover art by Norman Saunders

T.T. Flynn, “Mr Maddox’s Phoney-Finish”

John D. MacDonald, “No Grave Has My Love”

Philip Ketchum, “Meet Miss Murder”

B.J. Benson, “Homicide in a Hurry” (Shamus Dobson)

Raymond Drennan, Jr., “I Take This Doom”

Robert Turner, “How Dead Can You Get”

[Saunders’ artwork and some of the stories used for the August 1950 UK issue of Black Mask]

October 1939 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1939 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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John Lawrence, “Man Hunt” (Marquis of Broadway)

D.L. Champion, “Dead and Dumb” (Inspector Allhoff)

Sam Merwin, Jr., “Murder March of the Toy Soldiers”

Martin Labas, “The Devil’s Burden”

O.B. Myers, “Diamonds Can’t Swim”