
cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1943 Canadian edition
Reprints stories from the March 1943 U.S. edition.

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1943 Canadian edition
Reprints stories from the March 1943 U.S. edition.

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 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”
