December 1948 issue
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cover art by Norman Saunders
T.T. Flynn, “Mr Maddox’s Phoney-Finish”
John D. MacDonald, “No Grave Has My Love”
Philip Ketchum, “Meet Miss Murder”
B.J. Benson, “Homicide in a Hurry” (Shamus Dobson)
Raymond Drennan, Jr., “I Take This Doom”
Robert Turner, “How Dead Can You Get”
[Saunders’ artwork and some of the stories used for the August 1950 UK issue of Black Mask]
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
~ George Harmon Coxe, “Blood on the Lens”, part 3 of 3 of Murder for Two (novel published 1943), last of 27 stories with Flashgun Casey, last of 31 stories in BM
~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Conspiracy in Sunlight”, ‘Military Intelligence; set in WWII England’, 13th of 20 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Incredible Mister Smith”, 72nd of 73 Ed Jenkins in Chinatown with Soo Hoo Duck, Ngat T’oy, 98th of 99 stories in BM
~ Philip Ketchum, “Coffin Number Three”, ‘death of an Army officer; WWII’, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Henry Norton, “Slay, Fiddle, Slay”, ‘Steve Wiacheck, Polish-American worker’, 3rd of 6 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “ The Girl Who Wanted Money”
Hank Napheys, “Slayer, Come Back to Me” (reprint from 1946)
Larry Holden, “The High Cost of Chivalry”
Stewart Sterling, “Dying Room Only” (reprint from 1943)
Philip Weck, “Forgotten Killer”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Incident at Opunohu”
Philip Ketchum, “The Cop with All the Luck”
Rufus Bakalor, “Hundred Grand Feature”
Robert M. Hodges, “Wellspring of Murder”
cover art by Norman Saunders
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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)
SMB Noir 
