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February 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

February 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Damon Knight, “Slayer’s Solo”

Day Keene, “Doc Egg’s Graveyard Reunion” (Doc Egg)   

Ejler Jacobson, “The Little Red Murder School”

Ken Lewis, “Country Cadaver”

Talmage Powell, “Stay as Dead as You Are”

Ken Kessler: “The Crimson Thread”

Robert Bloch, “The Noose Hangs High”

John Corbett, “Hound of Hell”

Milton T. Land, “Home to the Kill” 

R. Sprague Hall, “The Case of the Walking God”

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December 1945 issue ~ cover art by Milton Luros

December 1945 issue

cover art by Milton Luros

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Frederick C. Davis, “Death Can Wait” (Bill Brent)

Dale Clark, “Stay Close to Me”

Merle Constiner, “The Kitchen of Master Lefevre” (The Dean)

Julius Long, “Mostly for Murder” (C.D. Mort)

Robert C. Dennis, “Rear View of Hell”

July 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1940 issue

T.T. Flynn, “The Bookie and the Blonde” (Mr. Maddox)

Leslie T. White, “One-Way Street”

Jan Dana, “The Murder Was a Pleasure” (Acme Indemnity Op)

John K. Butler, “The Man from Alcatraz” (Steve Midnight)

Hugh B. Cave, “He Didn’t Know Nothin’“ (Officer Coffey)

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November 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

November 1946 issue

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cover art by Rafael DeSoto

~ D.L. Champion, “Infernal Revenue”, 21st of 26 with Sackler, 23rd of 30 stories in BM

~ Robert C. Dennis, “I Thee Kill”, 1st of 6 with ‘William (Willie) Carmody, Confidential Investigations & Margaret O’Leary, writer, Hollywood, WC is first-person narrator’, 1st of 10 stories in BM

~ Jack Karney, “Shake Well and Kill”, ‘Garfield Dolan, red-headed private cop in NYC, 1st person narrator’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Paul Komisaruk, “Shot from in Close”, ’Harry Nyland, Consolidated Detective Agency narrates’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ C.M. (Cyril) Kornbluth, “The Brooklyn Eye”, ‘Tim Skeat, private cop, 1st person narrator, in NYC’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM, both with Skeat

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January 1948 issue ~ cover art by Paul Stevens

January 1948 issue

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cover art by Paul Stevens

~ Curtis Cluff, “Snow at Waikiki”, 1st of 3 with Honolulu PI Johnny Ford, ‘1st-person narrator, ‘snow=heroin’, 1st of 4 stories in BM

~ Merle Constiner, “Bury Me Not”, ‘Luther McGavock, private detective; he works for Atherton Browne who heads a Memphis-based agency, last of 11 of the McG stories; usually rural setting’, reprinted in Let the Dead Alone: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Luther McGavock (Steeger, 2020), last of 12 stories in BM

~ Norman A. Daniels, “Death is No Stranger”, Rick Trent, ex-PI, ex-con, 1st person narrator, 3rd of 4 stories in BM

~ Robert C. Dennis, “Murder Tops the Cast”, 4th of 6 with ‘William (Willie) Carmody, Confidential Investigations & Margaret O’Leary, writer, Hollywood, WC is first-person narrator’, 4th of 10 stories in BM

~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Keep the Killing Quiet”, ‘1st-person narrator’, last of 20 stories in BM

~ George F. Kull, “Red Christmas”, ‘in Reno‘, 1st of 2 stories in BM

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