cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Peter Paige, “The Riddle of Pap Rio” (Cash Wale)
H.H. Stinson, “The Good-Murder Policy” (Pete Rousseau)
D.L. Champion, “One Killer Too Many” (Insp. Allhoff)
Frederick C. Davis, “All This and Homicide Too” (Sam Squire of the Drumm Agency)
cover art by Rafael de Soto
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Peter Paige, “The Cash Wale Massacre” (Case Wale)
John Knox, “The Half-World — and Moonrake”
John Whiting, “Killers Prefer Blondes”
Robert Turner, “To Love, Honor – and Betray”
Ken Greene, “Crime on My Hands”
John D. MacDonald, “My Mission is Murder”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto, oil on board, 26 x 18.5 in.
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H.H. Stinson, “A Window in My Coffin” (PI Kerry Monahan)
Peter Paige, “Death – On the House”
John D. MacDonald, “Suicidal Journey”
Ken Kessler, “Operation Murder”
Seymour Irving Richin, “Violence for Vicky”
Stanley C. Vickers, “Noose of Retribution”
Edward William Murphy, “Killings on the Conscience”
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Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Carnival Kill” (Cash Wale)
Theodore Sturgeon, “Die, Maestro, Die!”
Carroll John Daly, “Half a Corpse” (Race Williams)
Larry J. Marcus, “Dead Man Blues”
R.M.F. Joses, “Bad to the Last Drop”
Robert Carlton, “Sealed with a Kiss” (Mike Brent)
John D. MacDonald, “You’ll Never Escape”
later UK edition, includes five pieces from US May 1949 edition
Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Carnival Kill”
Theodore Sturgeon, “Die Maestro, Die!”
Larry J. Marcus, “Dead Man Blues”
R.M.F. Joses, “Bad to the Last Drop”
Ted Palmer, “The June Thrill Docket”
stories by Daly, Carlton and MacDonald omitted
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Second Massacre!” (Cash Wale)
D.L. Champion, “Toast the Poison Princess” (A. Dasher)*
J.L. Bouma, “ – And Hope to Die!”
Charles Beckman, Jr., “How to Kill a Corpse”
Fletcher Flora, “ – Time to Kill – ”
Grover Brinkman, “Last Warning!”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Dope in the Dark”
Dennis Wiegano, “Letter of the Law”
* “Toast the Poison Princess” reprinted from 1945
cover art by J. George Janes
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~ Maurice Beam, “The White Lie”, ‘see p. 29 for letter from BM about story’, (thought to be possibly a pseud. of Robert Leslie Bellem), 5th of 7 stories under this name in BM
~ H.W. Guernsey, “The Last Pin”, ‘short-short’, last of 4 stories in BM
~ H.F. Howard, “The Corpse Takes a Wife”, see 12/1940 for Harvey Howard: Hagemann says ‘entirely possible HH and HFH one and the same’
~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Fisherman’s Luck”, 13th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, ‘Rice in South Florida’
~ Peter Paige, “Blackout!”, ‘spy story; set in Paris, early WWII‘, 4th of 12 stories in BM
~ William Tanquery, “Getting Maizie”, ‘Mac MacGrath & Jennie Komorawski, rival reporters’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Murder for Your Money”, ‘last (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’, 42nd of 50 appearances in BM
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cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Peter Paige, “A Corpse for Cinderella” (Cash Wale)
Merle Constiner, “The Riddle of the Bashful Ghost” (The Dean)
Robert Reeves, “Murder Without Death” (Bookie Barnes)
Jan Dana, “The Case of the Meek Millionaire” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Richard Dermody, “Hello, Sucker!” (Doc Pierce)
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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T.T. Flynn, “Trot Out Your Murder” (Mr. Maddox)
Peter Paige, “The Bullet From Nowhere” (Cash Wale)
D.L. Champion, “Coffee for a Killer” (Insp. Allhoff)
Jan Dana, “Cheese it – The Corpse” (Acme Indemnity Op)
John Earl Davis, “Try This on Your Knife”
cover art by Samuel Cherry
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Peter Paige, “Twelve Dead Mice” (Cash Wale)
H.H. Stinson, “Start with Murder (Sam Fisk)
Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Trove” (Doc Pierce)
William R. Cox, “Vacation – With Slay” (Malachi Manatee)
Robert C. Dennis, “They’re Coming Through the Door!” (Hank O’Neill)
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