cover art by Norman Saunders
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Hank Searls, “Auld Land Crime”
Richard F. Glendinning, “Sitting Duck Running Wild”
Frederick C. Davis, “Tune in on Murder” (Keyhole Kerry), reprinted from 1936
Mel Cotton, “Her Perfect Frame” (Shamus Buster)
Morris Cooper, “The Grave Killer”
Corretta Slavsky, “Checkmated!”
Robert Turner, “Slay, Maestro, Slay!”
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Robert Martin, “Death Under Glass” (Lee Fisk)
Hank Searls, “For Tomorrow We Die”
Talmage Powell, “Nobody’s Darling”
Frederick C. Davis, “Furlough for Murder” (reprint from 1943)
Larry Holden, “Prelude for Wake”
Don James, “G-String Kill”
John Bender, “In Jail By Christmas” (published in 1941 as “Prelude to an Operation”)
Ray Darby, “According to Plan”
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 Norman Saunders – oil on board, 22 x 15 in.
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John D. MacDonald, “His Fatal Fling”
Hank Searls, “Keep Your Money Side Up” (Shamus Blair)
Jonathan Craig, “One Sweet Frame”
Mel Colton, “Corpse-Gathering Cutie” (Johnny Rock)
John Granger, “The Busy Body” (Gumshoe Rory)
H. Hassell Gross, “Death Was the Bride”
Frederick C. Davis, “Kill Me, Kate!”
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cover art by Norman Saunders
~ Frederick C. Davis, “Swing Low, Sweet Casket”, 15th of 16 stories in BM
~ Dean Evans, “Hot-Rod Homicide”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ John P. Foran, “Epitaph for an Eager Beaver”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Fred Lane, “Slayer at Sea”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Hank Searls, “Drop Dead Twice”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Walter Snow, “Boozer Take All”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Bryce Walton, “Skid-Row Slaughter”, author’s sole appearance in BM
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cover art by Norman Saunders
~ Charles J. Beckman, “Satan’s Step-Daughter”, cop Mike O’Connell, only story in BM
~ Harmon Bellamy, “Shutterbug’s Long Shot”, only story in BM
~ Owen Couey, “Bring Your Own Body”, only story in BM
~ Westcott D. Gouldner, “All Work and No Slay”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ John D. MacDonald, “Jukebox Jungle”, last of 6 stories in BM
~ Robert Martin, “Lost in the Shrouds”, 5th of 6 stories with ’Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective’, 7th of 8 stories in BM
~ Hank Searls, “Nice Girls Don’t Murder”, ‘Pete Butler, San Francisco private eye’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Robert Turner, “Nine Kills to Paradise”, 2nd of 4 stories in BM
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[post updated 6/1/24]
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