cover art by Norman Saunders
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Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Brazen Ghost”
Frederick C. Davis, “Tall, Dark, and Deadly”
Robert Turner, “Murder on My Mitts”
John D. MacDonald, “High Walls of Hate”
Johanas L. Bouma, “Homicidal Harmony”
Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Murchison Got a Gun”
L.S. Goldsmith, “Black Spots of Doom”
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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~ 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, 3/1/26]
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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
SMB Noir 
