
Tag: woman with a gun
June 1938 issue
September 24, 1938 issue ~ cover art by Emmett Watson
August 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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D.L. Champion, “There was a Crooked Man – ” (Inspector Allhoff)
Norbert Davis, “This will Kill You!” (Bail-Bond Dodd)
John Lawrence, “The Death of the Party” (Marquis of Broadway)
Merle Constiner, “Strangler’s Kill” (The Dean)
O.B. Myers, “United We Fall”
March 1938 British edition ~ cover art by Raymond S. Pease

cover art by Raymond S. Pease
contents same as US issue:
~ Max Brand, “The Silent Witness”, short-short, 2nd of 2 BM stories
~ Joseph Csida, “Bank Night Kill”, ‘narrated by a “contest dick”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Steve Fisher, “You’ll Always Remember Me”, ‘young punk murderer; psychopathic narrator’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 4th of 9 stories in BM
~ Frank Gruber, “Dog Show Murder”, 4th of 10 with ‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, reprinted in The Hardboiled Dicks (1965), 5th of 14 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Three Apes from the East”, ‘Kerry Thorne, detective in L.A.’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 8th of 27 stories in BM
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January 1960 issue ~ cover art by Carl Pfeuffer
Stone Cold Blonde x 4

pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar
1951 Crown hardcover
1952 Signet reissue – cover art by Harry Schaare
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cover art by Denis McLoughlin

1956 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire

cover art by Denis McLoughlin
February 1933 issue
The Death Dealers x 9

1958 Avon paperback original – cover art by Robert Maguire

1958 Sphere UK paperback original with new title

republished in 1968 by Walker as A Whiff of Death




undated Lancer reissue from the 70s


Arrest the Saint x 4

It was first published in 1939 by Hodder and Stoughton in the United Kingdom and by the Crime Club in the United States.



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