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Frederick C. Davis, “Thirteen Shrouds” (Thackeray Hackett)
G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Feather in Your Coffin” (Jeffrey Wren)
Ted Stratton, “Hickory, Dickory Death” (Tom Morgan)
Ed Schmid, “A Likely Story”
John D. MacDonald, “Female of the Species”
cover art by Gloria Stoll
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~ Thomson Burtis, “Deadline for Death”, ex-USA intelligence officer, now police Lt. Greg Sullivan, last of 6 appearances in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Murder Lode”, 24th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 27th of 32 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Flowers for Flanagan”, 10th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 15th of 23 stories in BM
~ Roland Phillips, “The Sentinel of Green Cove”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ William Rough, “Shoot If You Must”, ‘Ben Slabbe, p.i., who has his own agency; 2nd of 5 capers’ in BM
~ Ted Stratton, “Accounts Deceivable”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
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cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “Yes, Sir, That’s My Slay-Babe!”
Albert Simmons, “She’ll Fool You Every Crime”
Robert Turner, “Dizzy Doll Blues”
Day Keene, “Claw into Your Coffin”
Richard Glendinning, “Two-Time Loser”
Ted Stratton, “The Graveyard is the Goal”
Zale Herrington, “Hussies Prefer Homicide”
August 1948 issue
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cover art by Norman Saunders
Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams’ Double Date”
Paula Elliott, “Salt on a Siren’s Trail” (Boden)
John D. MacDonald, “Cavaliers Make Good Corpse”
Don James, “Quick Buck – Quick Kill”
Roderick Lull, “Gentleman’s Vengeance”
Ted Stratton, “Butterfly’s Bier”
[updated 5/11/25]
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~ D.L. Champion, “Death for a Dollar”, 13th of 26 with Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 15th of 30 stories in BM
~ Leslie Charteris, “Murder Goes to Market”, 2nd of 2 Saint stories, last appearance in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Hands Down”, 16th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 18th of 32 stories in BM
~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Clues in the Night”, 14th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps, 17th of 20 stories in BM
~ Clyde Morehead, “Tears for Little Willie”, ‘short-short’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Ted Stratton, “Call the Undertaker”, ‘Trigg’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
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