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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”
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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)
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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
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[updated 3/1/26]
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John D. MacDonald, “Trap for a Tigress!”
Richard Deming, “Here’s Blood in My Eye!”
Albert Simmons, “Strictly Guilt-Edged”
Talmage Powell, “The Beautiful Miss Borgia”
Philip Ketchum, “The Good Neighbors”
Larry Holden, “Sing a Song of Murder”
Harry Widmer, “The Key”
Dane Gregory, “My Night to Kill” (reprint from 1941)
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Hank Napheys, “Homicide Home-Coming”
Frederick C. Davis, “Name Your Poison” (reprinted from 1940)
William Campbell Gault, “None But the Lethal Heart” (Det. Calvano)
Charles Larson, “The Deadly Coincidence”
Paul Chadwick, “Mermaid in Distress”
Day Keene, “Polly Wants a Killer”
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