November 1950
better image than previously posted
Robert Martin, “Slayers Burn Slow” (Jim Bennett)
Donn Mullally, “A Bullet for Baby”
T.T. Flynn, “Build-Up for Murder”*
Rufus Bakalor, “Homicidal Hobby”
Raymond Drennan, Jr., “Killer’s Luck”
John D. MacDonald, “Tri-Kill Cutie”
*reprint from 1941
cover art by Norman Saunders
Robert Martin, “I’ll Be Killing You” (Jim Bennett)
Robert Turner, “Homicidal Hitchhiker”
E.A. Morris, “Fist for a Fighting Fool”
Russell Branch, “If the Frame Fits”
Don James, “Sing a Song of Slaughter” (PI Pete Johns)
Bert Sims,“No Time to Kill” (Hawkshaw Morgan)
Alvin Yudkoff, “You Gotta Die Right”
~ Frederick C. Davis, “Flaming Angel”, ‘1st-person narrator; psychopathic murderer’, 13th of 16 stories in BM
~ Dean Evans, “Frame for a Dame”, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Something Dead Has Been Added”, ‘John Anthony Gwinn, Indianapolis reporter’, 7th of 8 stories in BM
~ Marvin J. Jones, “Sing a Song of Murder”, ‘Jimmy Bell, cop’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ John D. MacDonald, “Killing All Men”, 3rd of 6 stories in BM
~ Robert Martin, “Let’s All Swing Together”, 1st of 6 with ’debut of Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective’, 3rd of 8 stories in BM
~ Scott O’Hara, “Kiss the Corpse Good-By”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Edward van der Rhoer, “The High Cost of Dying”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[cover updated 1/29/26, original art added 3/1/26]
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