cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 20.5 x 14.75 in.
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Craig Rice & Mark Hope, “Case of the Vanishing Blonde” (Ed Bradbury)
Tiah Devitt, “The Merry Wives of Murder” (reprint from 1942)
Larry Holden, “Lady-Killer”
Richard Goggin, “For Old Crime’s Sake”
V.E. Thiessen, “Lady in Hades”
John Bender, “Tying Room Only”
Andrew Holt, “Death on a Platter”
Rufus Bakalor, “Love, Honor and Slay”
cover art by Albert Drake
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Thorne Lee, “The Hill to Die”
Hank Napheys, “The Bloodbank Killings” (reprint from 1943)
John Bender, “Room for Murder”
Alvin Yudkoff, “Stand-in for Death”
Robert Turner, “Slay Belles”
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Frank Huepper, “Hell Bent for Homicide”
Mel Colton, “Dreamer with a Gun” (Johnny Rock)
John D. MacDonald, “Take a Powder, Galahad!“
Richard E. Glendinning, “The Lady from Limbo”
John Bender, “Fall-Guy’s Feint”
Bert Styler, “Why Stoolies Get Stiff”
Mark Wilson, “Those Sticky, Sticky Fingers”
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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John D. MacDonald, “The Man From Limbo”
William Campbell Gault, “There’s Got to be an Angle”
Frederick C. Davis, “The Deadly Double”
Westmoreland Gray, “One Head Shorter”
Rufus Bakalor, “Tailspin Cutie”
John Bender, “She Wouldn’t Stay Dead”
John Lawrence, “Music from Hell”
Coretta Slavsky, “Relax and Regret”
cover art by Norman Saunders
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~ John Bender, “Mayhem Patrol”, ‘prowl-car cop is 1st-person narrator’, 2nd and last story in BM
~ Richard Deming, “Five O’Clock Shroud”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st-person narrator, 5th of 6 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “Dead –End for Delia”, last of 9 stories in BM
~ Richard E. Glendinning, “Die, Gypsy, Die!”, ‘Lt. Oscar Daniels, homicide’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Albert Simmons, “Disc-Jockey Dirge”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Robert Turner, “Hell Is What You Make It”, 3rd of 4 stories in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Of Time and Murder”, ‘reprint; not from BM; orig. pub., Detective Fiction Weekly, 15 Mar 1941’, 23rd of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
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cover art by Norman Saunders
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Robert Martin, “Sheath Your Claws, Hellcat” (Jim Bennett)
R.M.F. Jones, “Holiday for a Harpy”
Scott O’Hara, “Blood on the Midway”
Robert Turner, “It’s Time to Squirm”
John Bender, “Rock-a-Bye Killer”
Tedd Thomey, “All Burned Up”
Alvin Yudkoff, “Derelict’s Dereliction”
[updated 5/8/25]
Oil on board, 20.75 x 13.75 in. (sight) – not signed
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~ Rufe Bakai, “The Random Kee-Whango”, sole appearance in BM
~ John Bender, “The High Cost of Lying”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Robert C. Dennis, “Glitter Street Nightmare”, ‘set in Hollywood’, 7th of 10 stories in BM
~ Dorothy Dunn, “Dead-End Darling”, ‘double-crosser’s comedown’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Jim T. Pearce, “Always Leave Them Dying…”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Albert Simmons, “Murder Is the Best Policy”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Tedd Thomey, “Homicide Honeymoon”, ‘Mario Giovani, rookie cop’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Robert P. Toombs, “A Kill for the Bride”, ‘Billed as a “Suspense-Packed Crime-Adventure Novelette”’, last of 3 stories in BM
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