
cover art by David Berger

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”