cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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John Lawrence, “Murder in the Family” (Marquis of Broadway)
Norbert Davis, “Give the Devil His Due” (Max Latin)
C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Footprints on the Ceiling” (Colonel Kaspir)
D.L. Champion, “Tell It to Homicide” (Inspector Allhoff)
Alan Anderson, “Prowl the Night”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
~ Donald S. Aitken, “The Same Old Oil”, ‘Jack Gale, private dick’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Paul Allenby, “Overseer of the Poor”, ‘short-short’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Tong Trouble”, 67th of 73 with Ed Jenkins, with Soo Hoo Duck and Ngat T’oy, 94th of 100 appearances in BM
~ John Lawrence, “Body of Evidence”, ‘Al Hackett, Broadway squad (plainclothes), 1st-person narrator’, reprinted in Body of Evidence: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Broadway Squad (Steeger, 2025), 6th of 14 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Clamp Down”, 8th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 14th of 27 stories in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Too Many Angles”, ‘Donovan, the “hard-luck shamus”’, 45th of 50 appearances in BM
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cover art by Malvin Singer
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John Lawrence, “The Corpse That Didn’t Die” (Drago of HQ Dept)
Leslie T. White, “Ashes of the Living” (Ted Naughton, arson dick)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Vanishing Venus” (Carter Cold, MD)
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Into Thin Air” (Kip Lacey)
William E. Barrett, “A Man’s Last Hours” (Blue Barrel)
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)
cover art by William Reusswig
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Carroll John Daly, “As Midnight Strikes” (Vee Brown)
J. Allan Dunn, “The Saffron Shadow” (Fang Li)
Frederick Nebel, “The Dead Don’t Die” (Cardigan)
John Lawrence, “The Torso Trap” (Sam Beckett)
cover art attributed Malvin Singer, Walter Baumhofer, or Tom Lovell?
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Leslie T. White, “Matches in Hell” (Tod Naughton, arson dick)
Frederick Nebel, “The Sign of Murder” (Cardigan)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Silent Giantess” (Carter Cole, MD)
John Lawrence, “The Dope in the Death House (Colin Barr)
William E. Barrett, “The Blue Barrel” (Dean Culver, underworld gossip columnist)
cover art by John Newton Howitt
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Frederick Nebel, “Not So Tough” (Cardigan)
Fred MacIsaac, “Murder Reel” (Rambler Murphy)
J. Paul Suter, “Dead and Buried” (Horatio Humberton)
John Lawrence, “Guilty Party” (Cass Blue)
Edward S. Williams, “Seven Days Missing” (Det. Vance)
Dwight V. Babcock, “Pearls Without Publicity” (Kirk Daniels & Marcia Winters)
Anson Hatch, “Phantom Footsteps (Det. Larry Gilden)
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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T.T. Flynn, “The Nightingale Sings Death” (Bill Jennings)
Frederick C. Davis, “Maestro of Murder” (Keyhole Kerry)
John Lawrence, “Body About Town” (Marquis of Broadway)
O.B. Myers, “Second-Hand Coffin” (Chief Carmody)
Cyril Plunkett, “Half a Crime”
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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John Lawrence, “Death in Round Numbers” (Marquis of Broadway)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Combination” (Needle Mike)
James Duncan, “A Mere Half Million”
William Edward Hayes, “The Corpse in the Darkroom”
Cyril Plunkett, “Lead Medicine”
cover art by William Reusswig
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Erle Stanley Gardner, “Time for Murder” (George Brokay)
John Lawrence, “The Scarlet Casket (Sam Beckett)
Leslie T. White, “The Zodiac Clue” (Bart Shane)
Jan Dana, “Panamint Oil”
George Alden Edson, “The Death Club” (Larry Sall)
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