cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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B.B. Fowler, “The Thing That Darkness Spawned”
Emerson Graves, “Murder for Blood”
Russell Gray, “School for Corpses” (Ben Bryn)
Stewart Sterling, “Ten Dead Coppers on the Wall”
Harrison Storm, “Death Visits the Fair”
Dane Gregory, “When the Black Dolls Die”
cover art by Peter Stevens
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~ Maurice Beam, “Ear-witness”, ‘Malmin, lawyer’ (thought to be possibly a pseud. of Robert Leslie Bellem), last of 7 stories under this name in BM
~ D.L. Champion, “Extra-Alibi”, ‘Baxter Beamish, ex-con turned private eye; his business card reads “Set a Crook to Catch a Crook”’, 28th of 30 stories in BM
~ Richard Deming, “No Pockets in a Shroud”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st-person narrator, 3rd of 6 stories in BM
~ G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Legitimately Dead”, ‘Fells’, 6th of 8 stories in BM
~ Robert J. McCaig, “Trouble on Circuit 13”, ‘Marty Cullane, telephone lineman’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Robinson MacLean, “Somebody for the Wolves”, ‘Eddie O’Meara, shoestring Hollywood producer’, author’s only appearance in BM
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