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”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Frederick C. Davis, “Thirteen Shrouds” (Thackeray Hackett)
G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Feather in Your Coffin” (Jeffrey Wren)
Ted Stratton, “Hickory, Dickory Death” (Tom Morgan)
Ed Schmid, “A Likely Story”
John D. MacDonald, “Female of the Species”
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
[updated 3/1/26]
cover art by Norman Saunders
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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”
cover art by Rafael de Soto
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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”
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