cover art by John Fleming Gould
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Carroll John Daly, “The Quick and the Dead” (Race Williams)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Ghoul Hangs High” (Keyhole Kerry)
D.L. Champion, “Lock the Death House Door!”
O.B. Myers, “Don’t Bet on Ghosts” (Doc Kincaid)
Mark Harper, “Frame for a Fall-Guy”
cover art by Edgar A. Whitney
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~ Dwight V. Babcock, “Murder on the Gayway”, 6th of 7 Beeker stories, ‘SF World’s Fair, Treasure Island Nude Ranch’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 20th of 21 stories in BM
~ William Cole, “Waiting for Rusty”, ‘short-short’, only appearance in BM
~ Tiah Devitt, “The Haunted Inn”, last of 2 stories in BM
~ Mark Harper, “Death Rides Double”, ‘motorcycle cop’, pseudonym of Joseph T. Shaw, editor of BM, only fiction to appear under this name in the magazine
~ Fred Hodgkins, “Strangle-Hold”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “Moron’s Holiday”, last of 29 stories in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Kill That Witness”, ‘12th (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’, 39th of 50 appearances in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Collared”, ‘see p.31 for letter from CW on this story’, 14th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
cover art by Jerome Rozen
[post updated 1/13/24 – new cover and title page – and again on 4/26/25]
cover art by Dalton Stevens
better image than previously posted
image previously used on November 1933 issue
post updated 12/2/23
SMB Noir 
