1961 Gold Medal paperback original – cover art by Mitchell Hooks

pseudonym of Richard Jessup

1961 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by Mitchell Hooks

4th tongue-in-cheek spy thriller with Monty Nash

better image than previously posted

February 1940 issue ~ cover art by J. George Janes

February 1940 issue

cover art by J. George Janes

better image than previously posted

~ Maurice Beam, “The White Lie”, ‘see p. 29 for letter from BM about story’, (thought to be possibly a pseud. of Robert Leslie Bellem), 5th of 7 stories under this name in BM

~ H.W. Guernsey, “The Last Pin”, ‘short-short’, last of 4 stories in BM

~ H.F. Howard, “The Corpse Takes a Wife”, see 12/1940 for Harvey Howard: Hagemann says ‘entirely possible HH and HFH one and the same’

~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Fisherman’s Luck”, 13th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, ‘Rice in South Florida’

~ Peter Paige, “Blackout!”, ‘spy story; set in Paris, early WWII‘, 4th of 12 stories in BM

~ William Tanquery, “Getting Maizie”, ‘Mac MacGrath & Jennie Komorawski, rival reporters’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Roger Torrey, “Murder for Your Money”, ‘last (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 42nd of 50 appearances in BM

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1962 Signet paperback original – cover art by Robert McGinniks

cover art by Robert McGinnis

first published in Australia by Horowitz, 1962, then in the US by Signet, a paperback original

cover art repurposed for 1967 Signet by James Dark