Tag: richard deming

April 1953 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

April 1953 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

Dean Evans, “Remember Rose for Murder! (Daniel Marcus)

Dorothy Dunn, “Collect in Chi!”

Fletcher Flora, “Hell Has No Fury”

Richard Deming, “The Frame and the Dame” (Manny Moon)

V.E. Thiessen, “You’ll Murder ‘Em Tonight”

Joe Brennan, “Wrong Kind of Killing”

John P. Foran, “I Love You Deadly!” (Al Fansworth)

better image than previously posted

The Gallows in My Garden x 3

1952 Rinehart hardcover


1952 Rinehart hardcover, this the later 1953 Dell paperback

cover art by Robert Hilbert

his first published novel

first with series detective Manville “Manny” Moon who operated with one artificial leg

1954 Boardman UK softcover

cover art by Denis McLoughlin

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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