cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Donald Barr Chidsey, “The Carrion Clue” (Morton & McGarvey)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Countess” (Needle Mike)
Leslie T. White, “The Man With Two Faces”
William Edward Hayes, “Death’s Whisper” (Dan Howell)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Murder Bait” (Sam Felton of Adventures Inc.)
cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “Easy to Kill” (Izzy O’Shea)
John Lawrence, “Call All Cars!” (Cass Blue)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Late Mr. Smythe” (Peter Kane)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Fair and Murder” (Jones & Jones)
Allan Vaughan Elston, “Star Witness”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Man’s Dinner” (Det. Colohan)
D.E. Winstead, “Heel Prints” (PI Tyson of Townsend Agency)
this is the first issue with 144 pages
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~ Millard H. Cannon, “For Customers Only”, short-short, only appearance in BM
~ Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Horses Don’t Count”, last of 6 appearances in BM
~ Richard Deming, “Pay Up or Die”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st person narrator, last of 6 stories, author’s last appearance in BM
~ Charles Larson, “Eye for an Eye”, reprint, not from BM
~ Hank Napheys, “Homicide Furlough”, ‘reprint, not from BM’
~ Robert H. Rohde, “Millions of Cops”, ‘reprint, not from BM’
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Murder in the Ring”, ‘boxing, gamblers, racketeers, with Primo-Carnera-like boxer; reprinted from Dec ’30 issue
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
Frederick C. Davis, “The Green Ghoul” (Oke Oakley)
Donald Barr Chidsey, “The Scar Clue” (Morton & McGarvey)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Brand of Kane” (Peter Kane)
Fred MacIsaac, “Heir-Cooled” (Rambler Murphy)
Phillip Clark, “Three-Letter Kill”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Key to Murder” (Ted James)
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cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “ The Girl Who Wanted Money”
Hank Napheys, “Slayer, Come Back to Me” (reprint from 1946)
Larry Holden, “The High Cost of Chivalry”
Stewart Sterling, “Dying Room Only” (reprint from 1943)
Philip Weck, “Forgotten Killer”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Incident at Opunohu”
Philip Ketchum, “The Cop with All the Luck”
Rufus Bakalor, “Hundred Grand Feature”
Robert M. Hodges, “Wellspring of Murder”
cover art attributed to J.W. Scott but it looks like Delos Palmer to me
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