cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Dale Clark, “Stay, Fido, Stay” (Highland Park “High” Price)
Lawrence Treat, “Death on the Palette”
G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Dig a Grave for Me”
Alan Farley, “A Mouse in the Hand”
Julius Long, “C.D. for Corpus Delicti” (Clarence Darrow Mort)
Henry Norton, “No Tears for the Lady”
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cover art by Norman Saunders
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Day Keene, “Mighty Like a Rogue”
R.M.F. Joses, “Fill Your Own Shroud” (Skip Tracer Carter)
John D. MacDonald, “Swing and Slay”
Richard E. Glendinning, “Please Omit Flowers”
Ric Hasse, “Not By Blood Alone”
Robert Turner, “One Sunday Mourning”
cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 22 x 15 in.
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John D. MacDonald, “His Fatal Fling”
Hank Searls, “Keep Your Money Side Up” (Shamus Blair)
Jonathan Craig, “One Sweet Frame”
Mel Colton, “Corpse-Gathering Cutie” (Johnny Rock)
John Granger, “The Busy Body” (Gumshoe Rory)
H. Hassell Gross, “Death Was the Bride”
Frederick C. Davis, “Kill Me, Kate!”
cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “Yes, Sir, That’s My Slay-Babe!”
Albert Simmons, “She’ll Fool You Every Crime”
Robert Turner, “Dizzy Doll Blues”
Day Keene, “Claw into Your Coffin”
Richard Glendinning, “Two-Time Loser”
Ted Stratton, “The Graveyard is the Goal”
Zale Herrington, “Hussies Prefer Homicide”
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Bert Sims, “Beautiful, Blue and Deadly”
Larry Holden, “Murder and the Mermaid” (Gil Gilchrist)
Mel Colton, “Something to Shoot About” (PI Steve Stone)
Dane Gregory, “Self-Out!” [reprinted from 1942, originally titled “Remember the Blood and Tears”]
Carroll John Daly, “Death Rehearsal” (Willie Bloto)
Dick Goggin, “Danny, Get Your Gun!”
Fletcher Flora, “Ghoul to Go!”
Julius Long, “Mr. Mouthpiece” (Barry Bodine)
cover art by Norman Saunders
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~ John Bender, “Mayhem Patrol”, ‘prowl-car cop is 1st-person narrator’, 2nd and last story in BM
~ Richard Deming, “Five O’Clock Shroud”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st-person narrator, 5th of 6 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “Dead –End for Delia”, last of 9 stories in BM
~ Richard E. Glendinning, “Die, Gypsy, Die!”, ‘Lt. Oscar Daniels, homicide’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Albert Simmons, “Disc-Jockey Dirge”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Robert Turner, “Hell Is What You Make It”, 3rd of 4 stories in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Of Time and Murder”, ‘reprint; not from BM; orig. pub., Detective Fiction Weekly, 15 Mar 1941’, 23rd of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
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