April 1953 issue
cover art by Norman Saunders
Dean Evans, “Remember Rose for Murder! (Daniel Marcus)
Dorothy Dunn, “Collect in Chi!”
Fletcher Flora, “Hell Has No Fury”
Richard Deming, “The Frame and the Dame” (Manny Moon)
V.E. Thiessen, “You’ll Murder ‘Em Tonight”
Joe Brennan, “Wrong Kind of Killing”
John P. Foran, “I Love You Deadly!” (Al Fansworth)
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cover art attributed to both Norman Saunders and Peter Stevens
~ Ed Barcelo, “Suicidal Slay Ride”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Bruno Fischer, “Five O’Clock Menace”, ‘1st-person narrator in barber’s chair, reprinted, The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977)’, 4th of 5 stories in BM
~ John P. Foran, “Copper, Come Back to Me”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ John D. MacDonald, “Murder in One Syllable”, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 4th of 6 stories in BM
~ Robert Martin, “Death’s Glass Slipper”, 2nd of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective’, 4th of 8 stories in BM
~ Marian O’Hearn, “Diary of a Deadly Dame”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Fergus Truslow, “Pardon My Poison Platters”, ‘the record business’, last of 6 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[updated 3/1/26]
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cover art by Norman Saunders
~ Frederick C. Davis, “Swing Low, Sweet Casket”, 15th of 16 stories in BM
~ Dean Evans, “Hot-Rod Homicide”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ John P. Foran, “Epitaph for an Eager Beaver”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Fred Lane, “Slayer at Sea”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Hank Searls, “Drop Dead Twice”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Walter Snow, “Boozer Take All”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Bryce Walton, “Skid-Row Slaughter”, author’s sole appearance in BM
