cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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D.L. Champion, “The Day Nobody Died” (Inspector Allhoff)
Lawrence Treat, “Death’s Old Sweet Song” (Edward Asa Scott)
Julius Long, “The Corpse Belongs to Daddy”
Alan Farley, “Man’s Best Friend is His Murder”
Clyde Morehead, “The Remembering Skull”
Berna Morris, “Winter Violets”
cover art by Norman Saunders
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~ 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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May 1932 issue
cover art by William Reusswig
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“Three-Ring Murder” (Dan McGrath) by T.T. Flynn
“Red Bullets” (Murphy of Ozark Lumberlands) by Edward Parrish Ware
“The Screeching Skull” (Jim Trent, PI) by J. Allan Dunn
“The Death Master” (Vee Brown) by Carroll John Daly
photo and profile of T.T. Flynn was included
December 1945 issue
cover art by Milton Luros
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Frederick C. Davis, “Death Can Wait” (Bill Brent)
Dale Clark, “Stay Close to Me”
Merle Constiner, “The Kitchen of Master Lefevre” (The Dean)
Julius Long, “Mostly for Murder” (C.D. Mort)
Robert C. Dennis, “Rear View of Hell”
1941 Knopf hardcover, 1945 Avon reissue
cover art by Paul Stahr
published by Hale in the UK as Murder for Hannah
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1943 Avon Murder Mystery Monthly digest
cover art by William Frost (William Forrest)
1941 Knopf hardcover, first edition
“The second appearance of the character Hanna Van Doren, considered the first female hard-boiled detective in American literature.”
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