May 1948 issue
cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
Frederick C. Davis, “Dicks Die Hard”
H.H. Stinson, “That’s Murder for You” (PI Mack Spain)
Robert Martin, “No Haven for Homicide”
Richard Dermody, “Doc Pierce’s Corny Caper” (Doc Pierce)
Don James, “Hearse for a Homicide”
Wyatt Blassingame, “The Reluctant Corpse”
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cover art by Fred Craft
~ Dwight V. Babcock, “Too Many Slips”, ‘1st Al, bodyguard, story’, 3rd of 21 stories in BM
~ W.T. Ballard, “Murder Isn’t Legal”, 11th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 11th of 43 stories in BM
~ Eugene Cunningham, “An Old Spanish Custom”, 2nd of 2 with Western with Pony Kerr, 12th of 14 stories in BM
~ Hugh Lundie, “A Farewell to Strife”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Trivial, Like Murder”, 2nd of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 2nd of 27 stories in BM
November 1945 issue
better image than previously posted
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
~ D.L. Champion, “Money Makes the Mare Go”, 19th of 26 with Sackler, ‘here dubbed “The Shylock of the Shamuses”’, 21st of 30 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Never Kid a Killing”, 8th of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 13th of 23 stories in BM
~ E. Hoffmann Price, “I’ll Be Slaying You”, ‘Dave Stanton in military service; Bagdad, California’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Your Corpses Are Showing”, 13th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles’ Tribune, 21st of 27 stories in BM
~ Fergus Truslow, “Hardboot Homicide”, ‘ex-jockey Nick Apelman’, 2nd of 6 stories in BM
March 1930 issue
cover art by Alfred G. Skrenda
[Hersey swastika: “The Symbol of Good Reading – A Hersey Magazine”]
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