cover art by H.J. Ward
better image than previously posted
Tag: tux
March 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
1943 Crime Novel Selection
Lawrence Lariar also wrote under the names Adam Knight, Michael Lawrence and Michael Stark
first published in 1943 by Phoenix as Death Paints the Picture, reprinted by Crime Novel Selection as Death is the Host that same year
better image than previously posted
August 1937 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski
August 1940 issue ~ cover art by A.R. McCowen
October 1936 issue ~ cover art by John Drew
cover art by John Drew
better image than previously posted
~ Russell Bender, “Heat Target”, ‘mayor of a small Maryland town’, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ John K. Butler, “No Rest for Soldiers”, ‘WWI vets, bonuses & Russ McGregor’, 5th of 11 stories in BM
~ Lester Dent, “Sail”, 1st Oscar Sale story, set in Miami, 1st of 2 stories in BM, reprinted The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977), earlier version of this story reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010) as “Luck”. “Sail” and “Luck” reprinted in Luck: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Oscar Sail (Steeger Books, 2021).
~ Roger Torrey, “Jail Bait”, ‘1st (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 21st of 50 appearances in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
SMB Noir 
