October 1939 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1939 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

John Lawrence, “Man Hunt” (Marquis of Broadway)

D.L. Champion, “Dead and Dumb” (Inspector Allhoff)

Sam Merwin, Jr., “Murder March of the Toy Soldiers”

Martin Labas, “The Devil’s Burden”

O.B. Myers, “Diamonds Can’t Swim”

March 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

March 1943 issue

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

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August 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

August 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

D.L. Champion, “There was a Crooked Man – ” (Inspector Allhoff)

Norbert Davis, “This will Kill You!” (Bail-Bond Dodd)

John Lawrence, “The Death of the Party” (Marquis of Broadway)

Merle Constiner, “Strangler’s Kill” (The Dean)

O.B. Myers, “United We Fall”