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August 1948 issue
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cover art by Norman Saunders
Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams’ Double Date”
Paula Elliott, “Salt on a Siren’s Trail” (Boden)
John D. MacDonald, “Cavaliers Make Good Corpse”
Don James, “Quick Buck – Quick Kill”
Roderick Lull, “Gentleman’s Vengeance”
Ted Stratton, “Butterfly’s Bier”

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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, 1/30/26]

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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