
cover art by Barry Waldman
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Andrew Holt, “A Bier for Belinda”
Ennen Reaves Hall, “Dime-a-Dance Corpse”
John D. Fitzgerald, “The Merchants of Penance”
John D. MacDonald, “Bury the Pieces!”
Ken Lewis, “The Moon Was Black”
Cyril Plunkett, “The Judas Touch”
Dale Clark, “Look Alive—You’re Dead!” (Socrates Bean)


~ Norman A. Daniels, “My Dying Day”, Rick Trent, ex-PI, ex-con, 1st person narrator, 2nd of 4 stories in BM
~ G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Don’t Look Behind You”, 4th of 8 stories in BM
~ John D. MacDonald, “Manhattan Horse Opera”, 1of 6 stories in BM
~ Tom Marvin, “Blood-Red and Beautiful”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Burt Sims, “To Each His Corpse”, ‘diminutive Clint Morgan, Hollywood eye’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Fergus Truslow, “Murder Makes the Cock Crow”, ‘Malott & McCool, L.A. gamblers’, 4th of 6 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

July 1949 issue
cover art by Albert Drake
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Mel Cotton, “No Time to Burn”
Bruce Cassiday, “Hellcat of Homicide Highway”
John D. MacDonald, “A Corpse-Maker Goes Courting”
Peter Paige, “Coffin Cure”
Johanas L. Bouma, “I’ll Be Killing You”
Robert Turner, “Kiss and Kill”

December 1948 issue
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cover art by Norman Saunders
T.T. Flynn, “Mr Maddox’s Phoney-Finish”
John D. MacDonald, “No Grave Has My Love”
Philip Ketchum, “Meet Miss Murder”
B.J. Benson, “Homicide in a Hurry” (Shamus Dobson)
Raymond Drennan, Jr., “I Take This Doom”
Robert Turner, “How Dead Can You Get”
[Saunders’ artwork and some of the stories used for the August 1950 UK issue of Black Mask]

cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “With Soul So Dead”
Frederick C. Davis, “Nine Toes Up!”
Frank Huepper, “Plight of the Pallbearer’s Honey” (Merrick)
H.Q. Masur, “Meet Me at the Morgue”
John N. Polito, “Better Off Buries”
Charles Ingerman, “The Photogenic Corpse”
Frank Nash, “Murder Static”
