May 1949 issue

May 1949 issue

cover art attributed to both Norman Saunders and Peter Stevens

~ Ed Barcelo, “Suicidal Slay Ride”, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Bruno Fischer, “Five O’Clock Menace”, ‘1st-person narrator in barber’s chair, reprinted, The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977)’, 4th of 5 stories in BM

~ John P. Foran, “Copper, Come Back to Me”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ John D. MacDonald, “Murder in One Syllable”, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 4th of 6 stories in BM

~ Robert Martin, “Death’s Glass Slipper”, 2nd of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective’, 4th of 8 stories in BM

~ Marian O’Hearn, “Diary of a Deadly Dame”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Fergus Truslow, “Pardon My Poison Platters”, ‘the record business’, last of 6 stories in BM

©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

October 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

October 1948 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Lethal Lulu” (Cash Wale)

W. Lee Herrington, “Who’ll Carry My Coffin?”

John D. MacDonald, “My Husband Dies Slowly”

Roy Sparkia, “Satan’s Scapegoat”

Robert Canton, “No Bones About It” (P.I. Kent)

Stanley C. Vickers, “Pushover for Purgatory”

Bruce Cassiday, “Doubled in Danger”

November 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

November 1947 issue

cover art by Rafael de Soto

better image than previously posted

Peter Paige, “The Cash Wale Massacre” (Case Wale)

John Knox, “The Half-World — and Moonrake”

John Whiting, “Killers Prefer Blondes”

Robert Turner, “To Love, Honor – and Betray”

Ken Greene, “Crime on My Hands”

John D. MacDonald, “My Mission is Murder”

The Drowner x 7

1963 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by Stanley Zukerberg

1964 Robert Hale hardcover in the UK

cover art by Barbara Walton

1966 Pan edition from the UK

1973/4 Fawcett reissue

1976/7 Fawcett reissue

1979 Fawcett reissue

1984 Fawcett reissue (they wised up and went back to the original cover…)

June 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

June 1947 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto, oil on board, 26 x 18.5 in.

better image than previously posted

H.H. Stinson, “A Window in My Coffin” (PI Kerry Monahan)

Peter Paige, “Death – On the House”

John D. MacDonald, “Suicidal Journey”

Ken Kessler, “Operation Murder”

Seymour Irving Richin, “Violence for Vicky”

Stanley C. Vickers, “Noose of Retribution”

Edward William Murphy, “Killings on the Conscience”