
cover art by L. Fried

cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
cover art repurposed for January 1951 British edition of Black Mask Magazine


cover art by Rafael DeSoto
~ W.T. Ballard, “Lights, Action – Killer!”, 27th and last Lennox story in BM, 40th of 43 stories in BM
~ D.L. Champion, “Blood from a Turnip”, 8th of 26 with Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 9th of 30 stories in BM.
~ Dale Clark, “Murder is No Joke”, 9th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 11th of 32 stories in BM
~ Norbert Davis, “Don’t Cry for Me”, 1st of 3 with Hollywood piano man John Collins, 10th of 13 stories in BM
~ C.P. Donnell, Jr., “Death of the Party ”, 9th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps psychiatrist, 9th of 20 stories in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Dormant Account”, 19th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

Tempera on paper laid on board, 17 x 12.75 in. (sight)
Not signed
PROVENANCE: The artist, Connecticut.
Lay Down and Die! by Mark Reed, Falcon #26, 1952.

better image than previously posted

Gangsters and Gun Molls #3, Avon, 1952
Art taken from Avon Paperback #143, entitled “Flash Casey” by George Harmon Coxe. Art credit from Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1948.
