November 1944 issue (combined with 10 Story Mystery)
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W. Ryerson Johnson, “Killers’ Kingdom”
William R. Cox, “Hell Comes in Bottles!” (Tom Kincaid)
Ray Bradbury, “It Burns Me Up!“
Francis K. Allan, “Sing a Song of Murder”
Frederick C. Davis, “Doctor Diggory’s Glass Grave”
Wayne Rogers, “School for Corpses”
Ken Lewis, “Die, and You’ll Wear Diamonds!”
David X. Manners, “Lie Down, You’re Dead!“
Cyril Plunkett , “They Kill by Night!”
July 1944 issue
Day Keene, “Brother, Can You Spare a Grave?“
Frederick C. Davis, “The Little Green Door of Doom”
Stewart Toland, “His Beard Was Long and Very Black”
Curtiss T. Gardner, “In Bed We Die” (Val Vickers)
Duane Yarnell, “Claws for the Tiger Girl”
Francis K. Allan, “You’ll Never Know Who Killed You”
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Carroll John Daly, “Red Dynamite” (Vee Brown)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Corpse’s Bride” (Carter Cole, MD)
T.T. Flynn, “Murder Moon”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Other Bullet” (Kip Lacey)
William E. Barrett, “Death on the Double-O” (Blue Barrel)
cover art attributed Malvin Singer, Walter Baumhofer, or Tom Lovell?
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Leslie T. White, “Matches in Hell” (Tod Naughton, arson dick)
Frederick Nebel, “The Sign of Murder” (Cardigan)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Silent Giantess” (Carter Cole, MD)
John Lawrence, “The Dope in the Death House (Colin Barr)
William E. Barrett, “The Blue Barrel” (Dean Culver, underworld gossip columnist)
cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “Red Alibi” (Bob Blair)
Eric Taylor, “The Barbary Horrors” (Det. Jess Arno)
Frederick C. Davis, “Murder in Bronze” (John Law, PI)
only issue on which the magazine title appeared in red instead of the usual yellow
cover art by James Lunnon
~ W.T. Ballard, “No Parole from Death”, 20th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 31st of 43 stories in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Death Watch”, Scotland Yard undercover man Carr, politics and murder, 2nd of 32 stories in BM
~ Frederick C. Davis, “Tonight I Must Die”, 7th of 16 stories in BM
~ Steve Fisher, “Flight to Paris”, 8th of 9 stories in BM
~ Frank Gruber, “State Fair Murder”, 7th of 10 with‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, 10th of 14 stories in BM
~ K. Webster, “Underwater Kill”, ‘cop goes under sea-surface to nab his man’, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Edward S. Williams, “Deadly Secret”, ‘Rex Flynn, private dick’, 4th of 8 appearances in BM
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cover art by John Fleming Gould
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Carroll John Daly, “The Quick and the Dead” (Race Williams)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Ghoul Hangs High” (Keyhole Kerry)
D.L. Champion, “Lock the Death House Door!”
O.B. Myers, “Don’t Bet on Ghosts” (Doc Kincaid)
Mark Harper, “Frame for a Fall-Guy”
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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T.T. Flynn, “The Nightingale Sings Death” (Bill Jennings)
Frederick C. Davis, “Maestro of Murder” (Keyhole Kerry)
John Lawrence, “Body About Town” (Marquis of Broadway)
O.B. Myers, “Second-Hand Coffin” (Chief Carmody)
Cyril Plunkett, “Half a Crime”
~ Carroll John Daly, “Dolly”, ‘1st person narrated mood piece…see p. 65 for editorial comment on story’, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015), 1st of 71 appearances in BM
~ David Dart, “Parker Proves His Theory”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Frederick C. Davis, “Floating Pearls”, 2nd of 16 stories in BM
~ Mary Browne, “Man, Woman and the Iceman”, sole appearance in BM
~ Henry W. Fisher, “The Truth About the Belgrade Assassinations”, ‘Murders of King Alexander & Queen Dragna of Serbia in 1903’, 1st of 7 long pieces in BM
~ Jack J. Gottlieb, “Ling the Lucky”, ‘Chinese gunman Ling Yar in San Francisco’, author’s 6th of 8 stories
~ Francis F. Gregory, “A Pile of Dust”, author’s sole story in BM
~ Francis James, “The Sand Devil”, ‘billed as “A Complete Novelette of Mystery and Action…This weird story should be ready by daylight”; debut of Prentice, Harvard-trained criminologist, turned policeman’, 1st of 20 appearances in BM
~ Murray Leinster (pseud. of Will F. Jenkins), “The Wallet That Weighed Too Much”, 5th of 7 stories in BM
~ Herman Petersen, “A Gold-Digger’s Man” and “Half Across the World”, 3rd and 4th of 20 stories in BM
~ Howard P. Rockey, “False Witness”, last of 5 stories in BM
~ Robert Russell, “Suspiciously Good Behavior”, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Robert E(mmett) Sherwood, “Film Thrillers”, film-review series, short –lived department, not indexed beyond this issue
~ Ward Sterling, “The Concrete Facts About Thomas Hancock”, last of 16 stories under this name in BM [44th of 46 stories in BM under three different names – Harold Ward and H.W. Starr]
~ J. Ainsworth Wood, “Beyond”, ‘brief-brief’, author’s only appearance in BM
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cover art by L.L. Balcom
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~ John Ayotte, “A Pillar of Flame”, 2nd of 10 stories in BM
~ Raymond J. Brown, “Phantom Bullets”, part 3 of 5, only work in BM
~ Randal J. Carnes, “Civilized”, only story in BM
~ Ralph Cummins, “The Gas Heater Mystery”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Frederick C. Davis, “All Things Considered”, 3rd of 16 stories in BM (Davis won’t appear again in BM until 8/38)
~ Fairfax Downey, “Blood or Wine”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ John B. Hyde, “The Black Fin”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Harford Powel, Jr., “Mystery Ship” and “How Two Men Died”, a ‘brief-brief’, 2nd and 3rd pieces in BM
~ J. Fortune Reade, “The End of the Measure”, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “A Crook Deluxe”, 7th of 47 articles in the articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, reprinted in 5 parts through consecutive issues of Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction, July 23 – August 20, 1927 issue, 7th of 49 total articles in BM
~ Joe Taylor, “Alias Claire”, 7th of 12 tales in ‘My Underworld’ series, 8th of 13th appearances in BM
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