August 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

August 1940 issue

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

March 1938 British edition

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

©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

Stone Cold Blonde x 4

pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar

1951 Crown hardcover

1952 Signet reissue – cover art by Harry Schaare

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1952 Boardman UK hardcover

cover art by Denis McLoughlin

1956 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire

1954 Boardman paperback

cover art by Denis McLoughlin

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

1969 Lancer reissue

1970 Sphere reissue in the UK

1977 Sphere reissue

undated Lancer reissue from the 70s

1980 Fawcett reissue

1987 Fawcett reissue

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.

1941 Sun Dial Press

1951 Perma Books edition

1956 Avon edition

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