October 1939 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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John Lawrence, “Man Hunt” (Marquis of Broadway)
D.L. Champion, “Dead and Dumb” (Inspector Allhoff)
Sam Merwin, Jr., “Murder March of the Toy Soldiers”
Martin Labas, “The Devil’s Burden”
O.B. Myers, “Diamonds Can’t Swim”
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Leslie T. White, “The Crimson Counterfoil” (Duke Martindel)
John M. Gregory, “Track Racket” (Jim MacCauley)
John Lawrence, “A Burial is Arranged” (Cass Blue)
Russ Meservey, “The Fourth Pharaoh” (Pokerface)
Cornell Woolrich, “Murder in Wax” (Angelface)
O.B. Myers, “The Case of the Footless Corpse” (Breck)
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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D.L. Champion, “There was a Crooked Man – ” (Inspector Allhoff)
Norbert Davis, “This will Kill You!” (Bail-Bond Dodd)
John Lawrence, “The Death of the Party” (Marquis of Broadway)
Merle Constiner, “Strangler’s Kill” (The Dean)
O.B. Myers, “United We Fall”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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John Lawrence, “Murder Must Go On!” (Marquis of Broadway)
Carl Clausen, “The Bell of Blackman’s Knob”
Cornell Woolrich, “Meet Me by the Mannequin”
D.L. Champion, “Turn in Your Badge!” (Insp. Allhoff)
Wyatt Blassingame, “The Coral Band”
cover art by William Reusswig
T.T. Flynn, “The Monster of Hangman’s Key (Bill Clark)
Oscar Schisgall, “Murder Upstairs” (Don Cheever)
John Lawrence, “Design for Dying” (Sam Beckett)
Leslie T. White, “The Silver Shadow” (Jud Lunn)
a profile and picture of Leslie T. White appear on pages 123-124
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Merle Constiner, “Mr. Bettleman’s Blisters” (The Dean)
D.L. Champion, “A Leg on Murder” (Insp. Allhoff)
Dale Clark, “Necktie Party” (Plates O’Rion)
Marvin L. De Vries, “There Goes the Doctor”
John Lawrence, “Blood Test”
cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “Easy to Kill” (Izzy O’Shea)
John Lawrence, “Call All Cars!” (Cass Blue)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Late Mr. Smythe” (Peter Kane)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Fair and Murder” (Jones & Jones)
Allan Vaughan Elston, “Star Witness”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Man’s Dinner” (Det. Colohan)
D.E. Winstead, “Heel Prints” (PI Tyson of Townsend Agency)
this is the first issue with 144 pages
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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