July 1949 issue ~ cover art by Albert Drake

July 1949 issue

cover art by Albert Drake

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Mel Cotton, “No Time to Burn”

Bruce Cassiday, “Hellcat of Homicide Highway”

John D. MacDonald, “A Corpse-Maker Goes Courting”

Peter Paige, “Coffin Cure”

Johanas L. Bouma, “I’ll Be Killing You”

Robert Turner, “Kiss and Kill”

September 1939 UK edition ~ cover art J. George Janes

September 1939 UK edition

cover art J. George Janes

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~ Frank Collinson, “Death on the Prairie” [Part 2 of 2] ~ article does not appear in the US issue

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Dark Alleys”, 66th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, this one a spy story with Ngat T’oy and Soo Hoo Duck (‘Soo has a name for Jenkins – Sai Yan Pang Yeu: Man of the West Who is My Friend’)

~ Bill Gerry, “Autopsies Tell” [spelling in Hagemann], 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Headless Angel”, 11th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, this one in a swamp

~ John Lawrence, “Death to Spare”, 5th of 14 stories in BM

~ Peter Paige, “I Guard Nudes”, ‘factual article; PP is guard at New York’s World’s Fair’, 1st of 12 stories in BM

~ Cornell Woolrich, “Crime by the Forelock”, 13th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM

October 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

October 1948 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Lethal Lulu” (Cash Wale)

W. Lee Herrington, “Who’ll Carry My Coffin?”

John D. MacDonald, “My Husband Dies Slowly”

Roy Sparkia, “Satan’s Scapegoat”

Robert Canton, “No Bones About It” (P.I. Kent)

Stanley C. Vickers, “Pushover for Purgatory”

Bruce Cassiday, “Doubled in Danger”

August 1945 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

August 1945 issue

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)

November 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

November 1947 issue

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”

June 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

June 1947 issue

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”

May 1949 issue

May 1949 issue

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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

June 1953 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

June 1953 issue

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