Month: November 2023
June 1939 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
May 1938 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould
May 1938 issue
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cover art by John Fleming Gould
Fred MacIsaac, “Nobody’s Stooge” (Rambler Murphy)
William E. Barrett, “The Devil’s Dice” (Blue Barrel)
John K. Butler, “Why Shoot a Corpse?” (Tricky Enright)
O.B. Myers, “The Golden Gag”
Cornell Woolrich, “Short-Order Kill”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Five Seconds to Murder”
Lawrence Treat, “The Ghoul with the Green Eyes”
March 1930 issue ~ cover art by Alfred G. Skrenda
March 1930 issue
cover art by Alfred G. Skrenda
[Hersey swastika: “The Symbol of Good Reading – A Hersey Magazine”]
November 1929 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
November 1929 issue, Joseph T. Shaw, editor
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cover painting by J.W. Schlaikjer
Frederick Nebel, “Hell-Smoke” (Capt. MacBride novelette)
Dashiell Hammett, “The Maltese Falcon” (part two of the serialized novel before publication as a novel – first appearance of this section- not even mentioned on the cover)
Earl and Marion Scott, “The Second Spartan”
Carroll John Daly, “The Silver Eagle” (Race Williams novelette)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Brass Tacks” (Ed Jenkins novelette)
Tom Curry, “The Man from Headquarters”
Henry Wallace Phillips, “The Demon in the Canyon”
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June 1951 issue
February 1936 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski
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cover art by Rudolph Belarski
Richard B. Sale, “Murder to Order”(Penny Packer)
Preston Grady, “Mystery of the Vampire Bat”
Charlton L. Edholm, “Fox Trail”
Edmond Hamilton, “The Ramrod Key Killings”
James W. Routh, “The Frame”
Darrell Jordan, “The Perfect Set-Up”
Arthur J. Burks, “Death by Inches” (Duff Braden)
Forbes Parkhill, “Playboy”
Donald S. Aitken, “Millionaire Complex”
Norman A. Daniels, “The Painted Trail”
William G. Bogart, “Tapped Wires”
July 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Thorne Lee, “The Face of Fear”
Charles Beckman, Jr., “Died in the Wool”
Joel Townsley Rogers, “Killing Time”
Larry Holden, “Port of the Dead”
Gayle Roberts, Jr., “Trigger Man”
Curt Hamlin, “Death Is a Small Thing”
Ted Stratton, “On Borrowed Crime”
Todhunter Ballard (W.T. Ballard), “Bury Me Not”
cover art by Robert McGinnis
1946 Dell mapback paperback original
February 1960 Dell reissue, 1st print
cover art by Robert McGinnis
SMB Noir 