Tag: poison

May 1949 issue

cover art attributed to both Norman Saunders and Peter Stevens

~ Ed Barcelo, “Suicidal Slay Ride”, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Bruno Fischer, “Five O’Clock Menace”, ‘1^st-person narrator in barber’s chair, reprinted, The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977)’, 4^th of 5 stories in BM

~ John P. Foran, “Copper, Come Back to Me”, 1^st of 2 stories in BM

~ John D. MacDonald, “Murder in One Syllable”, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 4^th of 6 stories in BM

~ Robert Martin, “Death’s Glass Slipper”, 2nd of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective’, 4^th of 8 stories in BM

~ Marian O’Hearn, “Diary of a Deadly Dame”, 1^st of 2 stories in BM

~ Fergus Truslow, “Pardon My Poison Platters”, ‘the record business’, last of 6 stories in BM

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