cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Carroll John Daly, “The Mark of the Raven” (Vee Brown)
Frederick Nebel, “Blood in the Dark” (Cardigan)
John K. Butler, “Seven Years Dead” (Tricky Enright)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Crazy Witness” (Carter Cole, MD)
Leo Stalnaker, “Black Widow’s Night”
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~ William E. Barrett, “Snatch As Snatch Can”, ‘wrestler in Texas oil town; reprint, not from BM’
~ Donald Barr Chidsey, “Let Me Tell It”, Police Capt. Mitchell, reprinted from Jan ‘34
~ Mel Colton, “Win, Lose – or Kill”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ David Crewe, “Guilt Powder”, ‘Reprint; not from BM’
~ Jackson Gregory, “Indian Gift”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM, this one a reprint, not originally from BM
~ Richard L. Hobart, “Penny Pim – Accidental Detective”, reprint, not originally from BM
~ Robert Martin, “For Better or for Death”, last of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective’, ‘see headnote, p.2, for data on RM’, last of 8 appearances in BM
~ Edward S. Williams, “For Valor”, last of 8 appearances in BM, this story a reprint not originally run in BM
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Bryan, Michael (pseudonym of Brian Moore). INTENT TO KILL. [New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1956.]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell #88. Paperback original. Mystery novel.
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1950 Lippincott hardcover, a collection of short stories
cover art by Ray Johnson
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~ Richard Deming, “Big Shots Die Young”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st-person narrator, 4th of 6 stories in BM
~ Frank Gordon, “Last Kill and Testament”, ‘Alphonse Bertillon’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ W. Lee Herrington, [also published in BM as Alan Farley], “Die, Die Again”, last of 4 stories under this name in BM
~ Edward A. Herron, “Death’s 43 Days”, ‘Yukon short-short’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ John D. MacDonald, “Heritage of Hate”, 5th of 6 stories in BM
~ Larry J. Marcus, “Through the Murder Glass”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Robert Martin, “Richest Man in Graveyard”, 3rd of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective‘, 5th of 8 stories in BM
~ Talmage Powell, “Her Dagger Before Me”, ‘Tampa (Florida) p.i. Lloyd’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), author’s only appearance in BM
~ Harold Preece, “Boulevard Buzzards”, ‘short-short; Paris in 1880’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Robert P. Toombs, “These Dead Hands Reaching”, 1st of 3 stories in BM
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