September 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

September 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

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John K. Butler, “The Secret of the Wax Lady” (Tricky Enright)

Edward S. Williams, “Money in the Trees” (Paul Dana)

J.A.L. Chambliss, “A Corpse in the Rough” (Sid Harrison)

William Edward Hayes, “The Strip-Tease Murders” (Pete Niles)

Thorp McClusky, “Phantom Fingerprint”

O.B. Myers, “Death Takes the Winner”

July 1941 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1941 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Norbert Davis, “Watch Me Kill You!” (Max Latin)

James A. Kirch, “The Murder Master”

John K. Butler, “Dead Man’s Alibi” (Steve Midnight)

Cleve F. Adams, “Forty Pains” (O’Melveny and Dugan)

O.B. Myers, “The Wild Man of Wall Street”

February 1937 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

February 1937 issue

cover art by Tom Lovell

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Carroll John Daly, “Monogram in Lead” (Race Williams)

T.T. Flynn, “A Date at the Morgue”

John K. Butler, “The Walking Dead” (Rex Lonergan)

Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Man Who Was Two” (Kip Lacey)

John Lawrence, “Broadway Malady” (Marquis of Broadway)

a letter from JKB appeared on pgs. 123-124

July 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

July 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

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John K. Butler, “A Coffin for Two” (Rex Lonergan)

Leslie T. White, “Don’t Change Dames in the Middle of Murder”

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Card” (Needle Mike)

O.B. Myers, “You Can’t Trust a Corpse”

Maxwell Hawkins, “Forty Pounds of Flesh”

Norbert Davis, “Death Sings a Torch-Song” (Dennis Lee)

B.B. Fowler, “Avenging Angel”

Madelyn Ralph, “The Ghost in the Bottle”

October 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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John K. Butler, “Hacker’s Holiday” (Steve Midnight)

John Lawrence, “Gallows 9” (Marquis of Broadway)

D.L. Champion, “Suicide in Blue (Insp. Allhoff)

Roger Torrey, “Candidate for a Killing”

O.B. Myers, “Death Laughs at Locksmiths”

July 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1940 issue

T.T. Flynn, “The Bookie and the Blonde” (Mr. Maddox)

Leslie T. White, “One-Way Street”

Jan Dana, “The Murder Was a Pleasure” (Acme Indemnity Op)

John K. Butler, “The Man from Alcatraz” (Steve Midnight)

Hugh B. Cave, “He Didn’t Know Nothin’“ (Officer Coffey)

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April 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

April 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

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John K. Butler, “Gallows Ghost” (Tricky Enright)

John Lawrence, “The Corpse That Came to Call”

Leslie T. White, “Lullaby in Lead” (Duke Martindell)

Robert Sidney Bowen, “Dead Takes the Air” (Kip Lacey)

O.B. Myers, “The Black Room”

Malvin Singer, “She Found the Mutilated Forearm”

October 1936 issue ~ cover art by John Drew

October 1936 issue

cover art by John Drew

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~ Russell Bender, “Heat Target”, ‘mayor of a small Maryland town’, 1st of 3 stories in BM

~ John K. Butler, “No Rest for Soldiers”, ‘WWI vets, bonuses & Russ McGregor’, 5th of 11 stories in BM

~ Lester Dent, “Sail”, 1st Oscar Sale story, set in Miami, 1st of 2 stories in BM, reprinted The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977), earlier version of this story reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010) as “Luck”. “Sail” and “Luck” reprinted in Luck: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Oscar Sail (Steeger Books, 2021).

~ Roger Torrey, “Jail Bait”, ‘1st (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 21st of 50 appearances in BM

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