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John K. Butler, “The Secret of the Wax Lady” (Tricky Enright)
Edward S. Williams, “Money in the Trees” (Paul Dana)
J.A.L. Chambliss, “A Corpse in the Rough” (Sid Harrison)
William Edward Hayes, “The Strip-Tease Murders” (Pete Niles)
Thorp McClusky, “Phantom Fingerprint”
O.B. Myers, “Death Takes the Winner”
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~ D.L. Champion, “Padlocked Pockets”, 23rd if 26 with Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 25th of 30 stories in BM
~ Ed Edstrom, “Never Call the Cops”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Bruno Fischer, “A Killer in the Crowd”, ‘1st-person; homicide lieutenant, NYPD’, 2nd of 5 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “The Constant Shadow”, 4th of 9 stories in BM
~ Henry Norton, “High Voltage Homicide”, ‘Lee Bassler, ‘phone company trouble-shooter’, last of 6 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Murder’s No Libel”, last of 14 with Ken O’Hara, ‘now press agent for Hotel Diplomat’, 24th of 27 stories in BM
~ Michael Sutton, “Concerto for Guns”, ‘Johnny Dillon, LA private ‘tec, 1st person narrator‘, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
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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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”
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