
cover art attributed to Albert Drake
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cover art by Malvin Singer
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John K. Butler, “A Coffin for Two” (Rex Lonergan)
Leslie T. White, “Don’t Change Dames in the Middle of Murder”
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Card” (Needle Mike)
O.B. Myers, “You Can’t Trust a Corpse”
Maxwell Hawkins, “Forty Pounds of Flesh”
Norbert Davis, “Death Sings a Torch-Song” (Dennis Lee)
B.B. Fowler, “Avenging Angel”
Madelyn Ralph, “The Ghost in the Bottle”


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Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Killer-Diller”
Jan Dana, “Movable Alibi” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Leslie T. White, “Whole Hog or Nothing” (Sergeant Mackey)
O.B. Myers, “Cash on the Line”
Herbert Koehl, “Too Many Lefts”
Jackson Gregory, Jr., “Black is White”


cover art by Rudolph Belarski
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~ W.T. Ballard, “You Never Know About Women”, 1st of 7 with ‘Red Drake, undercover investigator for the State Racing Commission, 1st-person narrator’, 15th of 43 stories in BM
~ George Harmon Coxe, “Mr. Casey Flashgun Murder”, 14th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 14th of 31 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Crash and Carry”, 61th of 73 stories with Ed Jenkins, ‘The Phantom Crook’, 86th of 99 stories in BM
~ Preston Grady, “Massacre”, ‘Ned price, p.i., in South Carolina, 1st-person narrator; smuggling & Chinese villain.’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Leslie T. White, “The City of Hell”, ‘four honest cops “put the Indian sign on a city of graft”’, author’s sole appearance in BM
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[cover updated 1/25/26]


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


July 1940 issue
T.T. Flynn, “The Bookie and the Blonde” (Mr. Maddox)
Leslie T. White, “One-Way Street”
Jan Dana, “The Murder Was a Pleasure” (Acme Indemnity Op)
John K. Butler, “The Man from Alcatraz” (Steve Midnight)
Hugh B. Cave, “He Didn’t Know Nothin’“ (Officer Coffey)
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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”

cover art by Don Hewitt
Hersey swastika: “The Symbol of Good Reading – A Hersey Magazine”