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
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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T.T. Flynn, “Dead Man’s Debt” (Mr Maddox)
Fred MacIsaac, “The Duchess of Diamonds” (Rambler Murphy)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Chief” (Needle Mike)
Herbert Koehl, “Thirty Grand”
John Lawrence, “Boomerang Blastout” (Marquis of Broadway)
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”
October 1, 1933 issue
cover art by William Reusswig
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“The Corpse Was Cold” by John Lawrence
“The Die in Flame” (Ned Grantley) by Oscar Schisgall
“Stairway of Shadows” (Capt. B.J. Brady) by Leslie T. White
“The Golden Grave” (Craig Kennedy) by Arthur B. Reeve
photo and profile of Arthur B. Reeve included
cover art by Don Creigh
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~ William E. Brandon, “Handout”, ‘panhandler in trouble’, 1st of 7 stories in BM
~ Frederick C. Davis, “Seven Knocks at My Door”, ‘Dr. Joel Perry’, 4th of 16 stories in BM
~ Frank Gruber, “The Ring and the Finger”, ‘1st-person narrator’, 8th of 14 stories in BM
~ John Lawrence, “Deed of Gift”, 2nd of 2 stories with ‘Barron Hargraft & boxing in Detroit & NYC’, 4th of 14 stories in BM
~ William Tanquery, “At Stillson’s”, ‘newspaper reporter; Stillson’s – a bar’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Death Plays Tag”, ‘8th (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’, 35th of 50 appearances in BM
~ Donald Wandrei, “Make Me a Death Mask”, ‘young artist’, 3rd of 6 stories in BM
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[cover updated 10/27/25]
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”
September 1940 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
~ Cleve Adams, “That Certain Feeling”, ‘Engelhardt & Dewey, Car 97, LA setting’, 2nd of 6 stories in BM
~ W.T. Ballard, “Pictures for Murder”, 22nd of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 34th of 43 stories in BM
~ William E. Brandon, “Danny, Once the Rat”, ‘police-stoolie & Nazi spies’, 3rd of 7 stories in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Killer in the Wind”, 2nd of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 4th of 32 stories in BM
~ John Lawrence, “Death in the Pluperfect”, 1st of 2 stories with ‘Ace McGuire, Broadway squad, 1st-person narrator’, 7th of 14 stories in BM
~ Robert Reeves, “Dog Eat Dog”, Cellini Smith and RR’s debut, 1st of 3 parts that will be published as the novel No Love Lost in 1941, reprinted in Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith (Steeger, 2020), 1st of 12 appearances in BM
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cover art by William Reusswig
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Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Dance of the Snakes” (Small, Weston & Burke)
Oscar Schisgall, “Fangs of the Wolf” (Doctor Dyme)
John Lawrence, “Portrait in Crimson” (Sam Beckett)
Robert Barbour Johnson, “The Cancer Devil”
Howard E. Morgan, “The Red Scarab” (Blaze Quent)
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