July 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

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cover art by Norman Saunders

~ Charles J. Beckman, “Satan’s Step-Daughter”, cop Mike O’Connell, only story in BM

~ Harmon Bellamy, “Shutterbug’s Long Shot”, only story in BM

~ Owen Couey, “Bring Your Own Body”, only story in BM

~ Westcott D. Gouldner, “All Work and No Slay”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ John D. MacDonald, “Jukebox Jungle”, last of 6 stories in BM

~ Robert Martin, “Lost in the Shrouds”, 5th of 6 stories with ’Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective’, 7th of 8 stories in BM

~ Hank Searls, “Nice Girls Don’t Murder”, ‘Pete Butler, San Francisco private eye’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Robert Turner, “Nine Kills to Paradise”, 2nd of 4 stories in BM

©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

[post updated 6/1/24]

October 1949 issue

October 1949 issue

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Lauri Wirta, “Devil’s Island—New Style”

Ted Palmer: Popular Films

Talmage Powell, “Time of the Demon”

Frederick Blakeslee: Adventures into the Unknown

John D. MacDonald, “Last Rendezvous”

Day Keene, “The Laughing Dead”

Larry Holden, “Bloody Night!“

Margaret St. Clair, “Nightmare Lady”

Lix Agrabee, “The Corpse Came Back!“

Mayan & Jakobsson: Macabre Museum

Benjamin Siegel, “While the Killers Wait…”

Skippy Adelman, “The Crimson Pool”

William Campbell Gault, “Return to Terror”

The Editor: Mystery’s Dark Portals