Tag: john d. macdonald
September 1947 issue ~ cover art by Peter Stevens
~ 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
July 1949 issue
cover art by Albert Drake
better image than previously posted
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 ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
December 1948 issue
better image than previously posted
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]
September 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
September 1956 issue
March 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
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”
October 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
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”
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
[updated 3/1/26]
October 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
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”
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