cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Stewart Sterling, “Bull-Market for the Dying”
Francis K. Allan, “Am I the Corpse’s Keeper?“
William R. Cox, “Beware the Black Queen” (Tom Kincaid)
Wayne Rogers, “Murder Town”
Dane Gregory, “All at Once—No Wednesday!“
Russell Gray, “Death Hitch-Hikes South”
July 1940 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Ralph Oppenheim, “Beauty Treatments for Corpses” [Daniel Craig (The Bystander)]
Wyatt Blassingame, “The Doctor Says—Die!” (Joe Gee)
Stewart Sterling, “Bodies to Burn”
Costa Carousso, “Satan’s Broiler”
Russell Gray, “Death’s Gray Sisters”
W. Wayne Robbins, “Asylum for Murder”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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~ D.L. Champion, “Split Fee”, 4th of 26 with Sackler, 5th of 30 stories in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Hot Towels”, 5th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 7th of 32 stories in BM
~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Death Do Us Part”, 4th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps psychiatrist, 4th of 20 stories in BM
~ Robert Reeves, “The Cat with a Headache”, 5th of 10 with PI Cellini Smith, reprinted in Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith (Steeger, 2020), 6th of 12 appearances in BM
~ Stewart Sterling, “Over My Dead Body”, 4th of 9 stories with ‘Special Squad (Bomb & Forgery); see p.8 for note by SS on story’, 7th of 12 stories under this name in BM [Sterling and Stirling were pen names of Nathaniel Prentice Winchell, 20 total stories in BM]
~ Roger Torrey, “Snakes in the Grass”, ‘3rd of Bryant (4 stories), a regular U.S. Army man, who works in a CCC camp; 1st-person narrator’, ‘- in a Southern CCC camp’, 49th of 50 appearances in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
reprint of June 1941 US issue
pseudonym of Prentice Winchell, just one of the many pen-names he used.
1950 Dutton hardcover, this the later 1`952 Dell softcover
his seventh novel, third with hotel detective Gil Vine
cover art by Willard Downes
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1942 Putnam hardcover
cover art by Griffith Foxley
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Gold Medal paperback original (June, 1963)
pseudonym for Prentice Winchell, the only book he wrote under this pen name – also wrote as Stewart Sterling
cover art by Robert McGinnis
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SMB Noir 