
Day: September 30, 2024
December 1951 issue
May 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1943 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Cornell Woolrich, “Mind over Murder”
W.T. Ballard, “A Heel of the First Water”
Dale Clark, “Death is from Taxes” (Plates O’Rion)
Duane Yarnell, “Murder is My Meat”
Frederick C. Davis, “Home Sweet Homicide” (Bill Brant)
Henry Norton, “Bait”

[updated 5/14/25]
June 1953 issue
January 15, 1932 issue ~ cover art by Hubert Rogers
the con is on
Paul Newman as Henry Gondorff in The Sting, 1973
June 1940 issue
1974 Holloway House paperback original

pen name of Jopseh Gober Nazel, who wrote 60 books about the black experience in LA
first of four novels with L.A. police officer James Rhodes
better image than previously posted
1951 Pocket reissue

one of SMB founder Bill Farley’s Top Five Mysteries of all time. Sir Eustace is a cad of the first water, with a specialty in other men’s wives, and the list of people who might want to do him in could fill a London phone book. But which of them actually sent the chocolates with their nasty hidden payload? Scotland Yard is baffled. Enter the Crime Circle, a group of society intellectuals with a shared conviction in their ability to succeed where the police have failed. Eventually, each member will produce a tightly reasoned solution to the Case of the Poisoned Chocolates, but each of those solutions will identify a different murderer. First published in 1929, this is both a classic of the golden age of mystery fiction, and one of the great puzzle-mysteries of all time.




