Tag: richard deming

May 1951 issue

May 1951 issue

better image than previously posted

~ Millard H. Cannon, “For Customers Only”, short-short, only appearance in BM

~ Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Horses Don’t Count”, last of 6 appearances in BM

~ Richard Deming, “Pay Up or Die”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st person narrator, last of 6 stories, author’s last appearance in BM

~ Charles Larson, “Eye for an Eye”, reprint, not from BM

~ Hank Napheys, “Homicide Furlough”, ‘reprint, not from BM’

~ Robert H. Rohde, “Millions of Cops”, ‘reprint, not from BM’

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Murder in the Ring”, ‘boxing, gamblers, racketeers, with Primo-Carnera-like boxer; reprinted from Dec ’30 issue

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November 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

November 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

~ John Bender, “Mayhem Patrol”, ‘prowl-car cop is 1st-person narrator’, 2nd and last story in BM

~ Richard Deming, “Five O’Clock Shroud”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st-person narrator, 5th of 6 stories in BM

~ William Campbell Gault, “Dead –End for Delia”, last of 9 stories in BM

~ Richard E. Glendinning, “Die, Gypsy, Die!”, ‘Lt. Oscar Daniels, homicide’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Albert Simmons, “Disc-Jockey Dirge”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Robert Turner, “Hell Is What You Make It”, 3rd of 4 stories in BM

~ Cornell Woolrich, “Of Time and Murder”, ‘reprint; not from BM; orig. pub., Detective Fiction Weekly, 15 Mar 1941’, 23rd of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM

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[updated 3/1/26]

August 1952 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

August 1952 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

John D. MacDonald, “Trap for a Tigress!”

Richard Deming, “Here’s Blood in My Eye!”

Albert Simmons, “Strictly Guilt-Edged”

Talmage Powell, “The Beautiful Miss Borgia”

Philip Ketchum, “The Good Neighbors”

Larry Holden, “Sing a Song of Murder”

Harry Widmer, “The Key”

Dane Gregory, “My Night to Kill” (reprint from 1941)

1958 Perma paperback original ~ cover art by Ernest Chiriacka

1958 Perma paperback original

cover art by Ernest Chiriacka

below is variant cover of unknown release or origin

July 1948 issue ~ cover art by Peter Stevens

July 1948 issue

cover art by Peter Stevens

better image than previously posted

~ Curtis Cluff, “Leave Killings to the Cops”, last of 3 with Honolulu PI Johnny Ford, 1st person-narrator, 3rd of 4 stories in BM

~ Norman A. Daniels, “License to Kill “, Stacy Tucker, PI, last of 4 stories in BM

~ Richard Deming, “A Shot in the Arm”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1st-person narrator, 2nd of 6 stories in BM

~ Paul W. Fairman, “Big-Time Operator”, ‘young guy (1st-person narrator) getting into the rackets, reprinted, The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977)’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ William Campbell Gault, “Don’t Bet on Death”, ‘Cary Vaughn & Ned Orlow, private eyes’, 7th of 9 stories in BM

~ W. Lee Herrington, [also published in BM as Alan Farley], “Bury Me Last”, ‘Barney Moffatt, D.A.’s office’, 3rd of 4 stories under this name in BM

~ Victor K. Ray, “Eeeney-Meeny-Money –Murder!”, ‘Bill Baldwin, nightclub bookkeeper, 1st person-narrator’, author’s only appearance in BM

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[images updated 6/11/25, post updated 1/29/26, 2/28/26]