
cover art by Wynne W. Davies

November 1945 issue
better image than previously posted
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
~ D.L. Champion, “Money Makes the Mare Go”, 19th of 26 with Sackler, ‘here dubbed “The Shylock of the Shamuses”’, 21st of 30 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Never Kid a Killing”, 8th of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 13th of 23 stories in BM
~ E. Hoffmann Price, “I’ll Be Slaying You”, ‘Dave Stanton in military service; Bagdad, California’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Your Corpses Are Showing”, 13th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles’ Tribune, 21st of 27 stories in BM
~ Fergus Truslow, “Hardboot Homicide”, ‘ex-jockey Nick Apelman’, 2nd of 6 stories in BM

November 1st, 1936
cover art attributed to George Rozen but the “R” looks like William Reusswig’s ‘signature’

September 1942 issue
cover art by Milton Luros?
Frederick C. Painton, “You’ll Be Dead at Eleven!“
Raoul Schumacher, “Tough Guys Die Laughing”
Carl Rathjen, “A White Faced Man Will Hang” (Happy “Hurry” Kaine)
Arthur Leo Zagat, “The Cop in the Steel Coffin”
T. W. Ford, “Murder for a Maniac” (Damon Spane)
David Goodis, “A Smile and a Nod”