
July 1922 issue ~ cover art by William Grotz



cover art by John Newton Howitt
better image than previously posted
T.T. Flynn, “Easy to Kill” (Izzy O’Shea)
John Lawrence, “Call All Cars!” (Cass Blue)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Late Mr. Smythe” (Peter Kane)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Fair and Murder” (Jones & Jones)
Allan Vaughan Elston, “Star Witness”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Man’s Dinner” (Det. Colohan)
D.E. Winstead, “Heel Prints” (PI Tyson of Townsend Agency)
this is the first issue with 144 pages

1953 Lippencott hardcover
15th with Mr. and Mrs. North
1954 Avon paperback reissue
cover art by Mort Engle

pseudonym of Dudley Owen McGaughy
1956 Ace Double paperback original
cover art attributed to Lou Marchetti
better image than previously posted