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John Lawrence, “Murder Must Go On!” (Marquis of Broadway)
Carl Clausen, “The Bell of Blackman’s Knob”
Cornell Woolrich, “Meet Me by the Mannequin”
D.L. Champion, “Turn in Your Badge!” (Insp. Allhoff)
Wyatt Blassingame, “The Coral Band”
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~ Frances Beck, “Dig Down Deep”, only story in BM
~ Anthony Boucher [pseud. of William Anthony Parker White], “The Catalyst”, only story by Boucher in BM
~ D.L. Champion, “Spend, Killer, Spend”, 18th of 26 with Rex Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 20th of 30 stories in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Open and Shut”, 21st of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 24th of 32 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “The Witch of Endor County”, 6th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 11th of 23 stories in BM
~ Henry Norton, “Here’s Homicide”, ‘Barney & Brownie, writers of a smash-hit radio whodunnit show with same name’, 5th of 6 stories in BM
~ Michael Sutton, “Jail Will Be Lonely”, Steve Duncan, hotel bouncer, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Fergus Truslow, “Death on Ice”, ‘Hendricks, rookie cop in L.A’, 1st of 6 stories in BM
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1955 Popular Library paperback original
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1962 Belmont reissue as Jailbait Jungle
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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
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
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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”
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