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July 1939 issue

July 1939 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould?

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D.L. Champion, “Cover the Corpse’s Eyes” (Insp. Allhoff)

Cornell Woolrich, “Charlie Won’t Be Home Tonight”

Sam Merwin, Jr., “Murder for Syndication”

Jan Dana, “The Second Loop” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Leslie T. White, “Me and My Shadow” (Omar MacKenzie)

Curtains for the Copper x 3

1941 Dutton hardcover

1944 Dell mapback reissue

cover art by Gerald Gregg, mapback by Ruth Belew


1953 Dell Canadian edition

cover art by Walter Brooks

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April 1938 issue ~ cover art by James Lunnon

April 1938 issue

cover art by James Lunnon

~ Dwight V. Babcock, “Murder in the Family”, 2nd of 7, ‘Beeker in the San Joaquin Valley’, 16th of 21 stories in BM

~ Hal Murray Bonnett, “Dynamite Deal”, author’s only appearance in BM [who signed the cover]

~ Gregor Endell, “Murder Suspected”, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Muscle Out”, 65th of 73 Ed Jenkins with Soo Hoo Duck, Ngat T’oy, 92nd of 100 appearances stories in BM

~ Frank Gruber, “No Motive”, 6th of 14 stories in BM

~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “No More Limericks”, ‘21st (of 25) Jerry Tracy capers, columnist on the (NYC) Planet, ‘mixer with poor and rich, the crooked and the straight, trailer of trouble and happiness’, reprinted in Station K-I-L-L: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jerry Tracy, vol.3 (Steeger, 2024), 22nd of 26 stories in BM

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March 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

March 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

~ Thorne Lee, “The Mad Dog of Lame Creek”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Julius Long, “Forgive Not Our Trespassers”, 11th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 16th of 23 stories in BM

~ Dick Pearce, “Homicide Hangover”, ‘Major Bill Boyle, just back from WWII’, only appearance in BM

~ H.H. Stinson, “You’re the Crime in My Coffin”, ‘Gerry Fowler of Fox, Fox, Shapiro & Fox, law firm’, 22nd of 27 stories in BM

~ Fergus Truslow, “The Killing Was Mutuel”, ‘Private snoop Galahan around Del Mar (California)’, 3rd of 6 stories in BM

~ K. Webster, “One Fall for Murder, ‘Steve Ransom, reporter; wrestling story’, last of 3 stories in BM

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