
cover art by William Luberoff
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cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Carroll John Daly, “The Mark of the Raven” (Vee Brown)
Frederick Nebel, “Blood in the Dark” (Cardigan)
John K. Butler, “Seven Years Dead” (Tricky Enright)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Crazy Witness” (Carter Cole, MD)
Leo Stalnaker, “Black Widow’s Night”

cover art by John Drew
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~ W.T. Ballard, “Fugitive for Justice”, 4th of 7 with ‘Red Drake, undercover investigator for the State Racing Commission, 1st-person narrator’, 20th of 43 stories in BM
~ John K. Butler, “You Can’t Bribe Bullets”, ‘Marty Lewis, 1st person-narrator, & shady local politics’, 4th of 11 stories in BM
~ James Duncan, “Heir to Murder”, ‘Jerry Blaze’, 4th of 10 stories in BM
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Homicide Cue”, 27th of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 34th of 39 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Deep Red”, last of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy, v.4 (Altus, 2013), last of 66 original stories in BM (plus reprints from outside BM)
~ Roger Torrey, “Border Blockade”, ‘4th (of 5) of George Killeen, private ‘tec in L.A., & 1st-person narrator; with Lieutenant McFee, Homicide’, ‘California, i.e., Mexican border’, 20th of 50 appearances in BM
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cover art by Malvin Singer?
Leslie T. White, “Corpse Crazy” (Duke Martindel)
Raymond Chandler, “Mandarin’s Jade” (John Dalmas)
John K. Butler, “The Pied Piper of Frisco” (Rex Lonergan)
Hugh B. Cave, “Twenty After Murder” (Jitters Johnson)
Jan Dana, “Dead Failure”
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August 1936 issue
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Chinamen” (Needle Mike)
Leslie T. White, “The Bullet That Took Its Time” (Duke Martindel)
John K. Butler, “Parole for the Dead” (Tricky Enright)
Fred MacIsaac, “Blond Cargo” (Rambler Murphy)
Denslow M. Dade, “The Came On”

cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Carroll John Daly, “Dead Hands Reaching” (Race Williams)
John K. Butler, “The Stairway to Hell” (Rex Lonergan)
Oscar Schisgall, “Island of Fear”
Norbert Davis, “The Devil’s Scalpel” (Bill Ray)
Wyatt Blassingame, “3+1 = Murder”

February 1939 issue
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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John K. Butler, “County Cleanup” (Tricky Enright)
Warren E. Barrett, “The Mad Mayor” (Blue Barrel)
Leslie T. White, “Dangerous But Passable!”
Erle Pierce, Jr., “Mum’s the Word for Murder”
Jan Dana, “Single Indemnity” (Acme Insurance Op)

cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Leslie T. White, “Eyewitness” (Tod Naughton, arson dick)
Donald G. Cooley, “Brood of the Green Bowman”
John Lawrence, “Murder by Magic” (Drago of Headquarters Squad)
John K. Butler, “Blood on the Buddha” (Rex Lonergan)