
cover art by Walter Baumhofer

cover art by John Drew
~ Dwight V. Babcock, “Murder on the Side”, ‘unemployed reporter, 1st-person narrator’, 12th of 21 stories in BM
~ W.T. Ballard, “Whipsawed”, 17th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 23rd of 43 stories in BM
~ James Francis Bonnell, “Address Unknown”, short-short, only appearance in BM
~ Paul Cain, “Dutch Treat”, ‘emeralds’, reprinted in The Complete Slayers (2011 Centipede Press), last of 17 stories in BM
~ Lester Dent, “Angelfish”, 2nd Oscar Sale story, last story in BM, reprinted in The Hardboiled Dicks (1965), and The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977), last of 2 stories in BM. Reprinted in Luck: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Oscar Sail (Steeger Books, 2021).
~ James Duncan, “Thoroughbred”, ‘Jerry Breton 1st-grade dick, & Florida Racing Commission’, 5th of 10 stories in BM
~ E.G. Morris, “Panic”, ‘petty crook’s panic’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “The Irish Have It”, ‘2nd (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’, 23rd of 50 appearances in BM
better image than previously posted
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[image updated 6/2/24]

cover art by Rudolph Zirm
cover art repurposed from Thrilling Detective, December 1934
better image than previously posted


cover art by John Fleming Gould
Carroll John Daly, “The Men in Black” (Race Williams)
T.T. Flynn, “Death Rides the Favorite” (Mr. Maddox)
H.F. Howard, “Let Nature Takes Its Corpse”
Leslie T. White, “The Price of Square Joe Bund”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Murder Out of Thin Air” (Kip Lacey)
better image than previously posted