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cover art by Albert Drake
Frederick C. Davis, “For Thee I Swing”
Robert Martin, “Dolls of Death”(featuring Jim Bennett)
Bryce Walton, “Whistle Stop Mayhem”
Hope Campbell, “A Shiv for Chivalry”
Dwight V. Swain, “Our Favorite Corpse”
John Polito, “Vacation from Violence”
Joseph W. Quinn, “Jackpot Jitters”


cover art by J. George Janes
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~ Russell Bender, “Body-Guard to Death”, ‘Jake Connolly’, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Frederick C. Davis, “This Way to the Morgue”, 1st of 2 with reporter Murray Gifford, 5th of 16 stories in BM
~ Frank Gruber, “Forced Landing”, 6th of 10 with ‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, ‘Quade in Hollywood; see p.5 for letter from FG on Oliver Q.’, 9th of 14 stories in BM
~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “The Death Pool”, 7th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida
~ Roger Torrey, “Gardenia Kill”, ‘9th (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’, 36th of 50 appearances in BM
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cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “Dead Men Don’t Scare”
Talmage Powell, “Forget-Me-Not Killer”
Frederick C. Davis, “If the Noose Fits”
Robert Turner, “Murder in Her Wake”
Van MacNair, Jr., “White-Collar Stiff”
Russell Branch, “So Sorry – So Dead”
Scott O’Hara, “Five-Star Fugitive” (pen name of MacDonald’s)


cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Frederick C. Davis, “A Stiff in Time Saves Nine” (Bill Brent)
T.T. Flynn, “The Sooner the Deader” (Mr. Maddox)
C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Who Owns Boriska?” (Colonel Kaspir)
Richard Dermody, “The Doctor Deals” (Doc Pierce)


cover art by Albert Drake?
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Robert Martin, “Murder the Bum” (Stephen Abbott)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Merry Queen of Murder” (Thackeray Hackett)
John D. MacDonald, “The Corpse Belongs to Daddy” (Donald Cheyne)
James A. Kirch, “Shoot If You Must” (Brad Harkness)
Dorothy Dunn, “Oblivion for Me” (Hollis Dorsey)
Johanas L. Bouma, “Bury Your Own Dead” (Joe Bowers)
Stuart Friedman, “Angel in the Deathhouse” (Thad Preston)
Jack Winters, “Slayer at Sea” (Thomas Brain)


cover art by Norman Saunders
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Robert Martin, “Slayers Go Solo” (Jim Bennett)
Frederick C. Davis, “You Kill Me, Honey!”
Hank Searls, “A Dish of Homicide”
Harold Q. Masur, “Widow in Waiting” (Scott Jordan)
Richard Glendenning, “Reach for Your Coffin”
John D. MacDonald, “The Durable Corpse”
Johnas L. Bouma, “Birth of a Killer”


cover art by John Howitt
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Carroll John Daly, “Make Your Own Corpse!” (Vee Brown)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Death from Down Under” (Jones & Jones)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Silver Doom” (Oke Oakley)