August 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

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cover art by Norman Saunders

Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams’ Double Date”

Paula Elliot, “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”

March 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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cover art by Rafael DeSoto

~ 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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July 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1947 issue

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cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Thorne Lee, “The Face of Fear”

Charles Beckman, Jr., “Died in the Wool”

Joel Townsley Rogers, “Killing Time”

Larry Holden, “Port of the Dead”

Gayle Roberts, Jr., “Trigger Man”

Curt Hamlin, “Death Is a Small Thing”

Ted Stratton, “On Borrowed Crime”

Todhunter Ballard (W.T. Ballard), “Bury Me Not”