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)
cover art by William Reusswig
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Carroll John Daly, “Blood on the Curtain” (Marty Day & Reckoner)
Allan Vaughan Elston, “Winking Death” (Arthur Baird & Patrick Shone)
T.T. Flynn, “Red Dollars” (Jerry Prince)
Oscar Schisgall, “Wrapped for Murder” (Dan Taggert, PI)
cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “Easy to Kill” (Izzy O’Shea)
John Lawrence, “Call All Cars!” (Cass Blue)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Late Mr. Smythe” (Peter Kane)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Fair and Murder” (Jones & Jones)
Allan Vaughan Elston, “Star Witness”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Man’s Dinner” (Det. Colohan)
D.E. Winstead, “Heel Prints” (PI Tyson of Townsend Agency)
this is the first issue with 144 pages
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