


cover art by John Fleming Gould
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T.T. Flynn, “The Devil’s Derby” (Mr. Maddox)
Raymond Chandler, “Pearls are a Nuisance”
Fred MacIsaac, “Murder at the Beauty Show” (Rambler Murphy)
John Lawrence, “Old Wives’ Tale” (Marquis of Broadway)
Dale Clark, “Mercy Killing”
with a simple listing of his name on the cover, along with those of his colleagues, the editors could not have been aware that they were publishing one of Raymond Chandler’s masterpieces. The Big Sleep had been published just two months before, on February 6.

cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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T.T. Flynn, “The Ghost Whistle” (Bill Wallace)
Frederick Nebel, “Death in the Raw” (Cardigan)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Chain” (Needle Mike)
Frederick C. Davis,“The Case of the Skinned Man” (Carter Cole, MD)
O.B. Myers, “The Corpse Master” (Det. Cutter)

cover art by William Reusswig
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T.T. Flynn, “The Black Doctor” (Val Easton, Secret Service)
Frederick Nebel, “A Truck Load of Diamonds” (Cardigan)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Marked Money” (Dane Skarle)
Richard J. Credicott, “The Three Horrible Heads” (Anthony Fletcher)
Joseph Mulvaney, “Smart Like a Fox” (Oscar Fox)

cover art by William Reusswig
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T.T. Flynn, “The Jade Joss” (Val Easton v. Black Doctor)
Russ Meservey, “The Swamp Lake Horrors” (Link Nace)
Frederick Nebel, “Murder a la Carte” (Cardigan)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Cross-Stitch Killer” (Paul Pry)
Photo and profile of Russ Meservey appeared on pg. 123

December 1948 issue
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cover art by Norman Saunders
T.T. Flynn, “Mr Maddox’s Phoney-Finish”
John D. MacDonald, “No Grave Has My Love”
Philip Ketchum, “Meet Miss Murder”
B.J. Benson, “Homicide in a Hurry” (Shamus Dobson)
Raymond Drennan, Jr., “I Take This Doom”
Robert Turner, “How Dead Can You Get”
[Saunders’ artwork and some of the stories used for the August 1950 UK issue of Black Mask]

cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Frederick Nebel, “Hell Couldn’t Stop Him” (Cardigan)
Leslie T. White, “Crook for a Night” (Toby Laird)
William Edward Hayes, “The Corpse on the Semaphore” (Dan Howell)
T. T. Flynn, “The Dragons of Change Ch’ien” (Val Easton)
O.B. Myers, “Grave Mates” (Jimmy McRay)