
cover art by Don Hewitt

March 1940 – second of just three issues
cover art attributed to John A. Coughlin
cover repurposed from Jan./Feb. 1938 issue


cover art by Edgar A. Whitney
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~ Frederick C. Davis, “All Roads Closed”, ‘kidnapping & amnesia’, 9th of 16 stories in BM
~ Mindret Lord, “The Tattooed Tramp”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Hay Time”, ‘11th (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 38th of 50 appearances in BM
~ Lawrence Treat, “Swampers’ Gold”, ‘pirate treasure’, 4th of 5 stories in BM
~ Edward S. Williams, “Bloody Answers”, ‘Corporal John Harmon, State Trooper, narrator’, 5th of 8 appearances in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Men Must Die”, 12th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
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cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “With Soul So Dead”
Frederick C. Davis, “Nine Toes Up!”
Frank Huepper, “Plight of the Pallbearer’s Honey” (Merrick)
H.Q. Masur, “Meet Me at the Morgue”
John N. Polito, “Better Off Buries”
Charles Ingerman, “The Photogenic Corpse”
Frank Nash, “Murder Static”


cover art by Malvin Singer
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John Lawrence, “The Corpse That Didn’t Die” (Drago of HQ Dept)
Leslie T. White, “Ashes of the Living” (Ted Naughton, arson dick)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Vanishing Venus” (Carter Cold, MD)
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Into Thin Air” (Kip Lacey)
William E. Barrett, “A Man’s Last Hours” (Blue Barrel)

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Frederick C. Davis, “Clinic for Corpses” (Bill Brent)
Norbert Davis, “Charity Begins at Homicide” (Max Latin)
C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Beef to the Heels” (Colonel Kaspir)
H.S.M. Kemp, “Between 11:00 and 11:15”
G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “There’s One in Every Graveyard”
Richard Dermody, “Painless Operation”


cover art by John Fleming Gould
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T.T. Flynn, “Saratoga Slay-Ride” (Mr. Maddox)
Frederick C. Davis, “Poison on Her Lips” (Keyhole Kerry)
Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Talking Eyes”
Jan Dana, “Storm Signal” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Denslow M. Dade, “Judgment Seat”