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John Lawrence, “Murder in the Family” (Marquis of Broadway)
Norbert Davis, “Give the Devil His Due” (Max Latin)
C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Footprints on the Ceiling” (Colonel Kaspir)
D.L. Champion, “Tell It to Homicide” (Inspector Allhoff)
Alan Anderson, “Prowl the Night”
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~ Donald S. Aitken, “The Same Old Oil”, ‘Jack Gale, private dick’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Paul Allenby, “Overseer of the Poor”, ‘short-short’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Tong Trouble”, 67th of 73 with Ed Jenkins, with Soo Hoo Duck and Ngat T’oy, 94th of 100 appearances in BM
~ John Lawrence, “Body of Evidence”, ‘Al Hackett, Broadway squad (plainclothes), 1st-person narrator’, reprinted in Body of Evidence: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Broadway Squad (Steeger, 2025), 6th of 14 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Clamp Down”, 8th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 14th of 27 stories in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Too Many Angles”, ‘Donovan, the “hard-luck shamus”’, 45th of 50 appearances in BM
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The Editor, “Mystery’s Dark Portals”
Lauri Wirta, “The Lonely Dead”
Cyril Plunkett, “If I Should Die—”
George William Rae, “It’s Your Neck!“
Day Keene, “Quietly My Hangnoose Waits” (Matt Mercer)
Mayan & Jakobsson, “Macabre Museum”
Ralph Eldred, “The Burning Snow”
John Corbett, “This Way Out”
Ken Lewis, “My Kingdom for a Corpse”
Dana McGuire, “Till Death Do Us Part”
Talmage Powell, “Each Man Kills—”
C. William Harrison, “Shadow of a Slayer”
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Frederick C. Davis, “Clinic for Corpses” (Bill Brent)
Norbert Davis, “Charity Begins at Homicide” (Max Latin)
C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Beef to the Heels” (Colonel Kaspir)
H.S.M. Kemp, “Between 11:00 and 11:15”
G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “There’s One in Every Graveyard”
Richard Dermody, “Painless Operation”
1947 Wyn hardcover A Murder in the House, this the 1952 Ace paperback reissue
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the author’s only mystery novel
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Frederick C. Davis, “Thirteen Shrouds” (Thackeray Hackett)
G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Feather in Your Coffin” (Jeffrey Wren)
Ted Stratton, “Hickory, Dickory Death” (Tom Morgan)
Ed Schmid, “A Likely Story”
John D. MacDonald, “Female of the Species”
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H.H. Stinson, “Slay Binge” (Pete Rousseau)
Robert Martin, “G.I. Doublecross” (Jim Bennett)
Dale Clark, “Corpse on Parade” (High Price)
Thorne Lee, “The Whisperer”
Ralph Eldred, “Death Watch”
Ken Lewis, “This May Hurt a Little”
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