
Month: June 2025
December 1942 issue
May 1947 issue

cover art attributed to Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
Robert Martin, “Death Under Par”
Thorne Lee, “Married to Murder”
D.L. Champion, “Suitable for Framing” (Mariano Mercado)
Ken Greene, “A Red-Headed Clue”
Larry Holden, “A Corpse to his Credit”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “Grim Reaper’s Model”

April 1941 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
T.T. Flynn, “Trot Out Your Murder” (Mr. Maddox)
Peter Paige, “The Bullet From Nowhere” (Cash Wale)
D.L. Champion, “Coffee for a Killer” (Insp. Allhoff)
Jan Dana, “Cheese it – The Corpse” (Acme Indemnity Op)
John Earl Davis, “Try This on Your Knife”

January 1946 issue ~ cover art by Samuel Cherry

cover art by Samuel Cherry
better image than previously posted
Peter Paige, “Twelve Dead Mice” (Cash Wale)
H.H. Stinson, “Start with Murder (Sam Fisk)
Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Trove” (Doc Pierce)
William R. Cox, “Vacation – With Slay” (Malachi Manatee)
Robert C. Dennis, “They’re Coming Through the Door!” (Hank O’Neill)

March 1943 issue ~ cover art by Robert Gibson Jones
September 1949 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
Frederick C. Davis, “Sinner Take All”
John D. MacDonald, “Murder Run-Around”
Robert Martin, “Deadliest Dame in Town” (Jim Bennett)
Paul W. Fairman, “Spotlight on Slaughter”
E.A. Morris, “I’ll Laugh at Your Funeral”
Larry J. Marcus, “The Spider’s Web”
Harvey Weinstein, “Rendezvous with Blood”
Scott O’Hara, “Mad About Murder” (pen name of John D. MacDonald)

May 1942 issue
March 1939 issue
June 1951 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders


cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 22 x 15 in.
better image than previously posted
Albert Simmons, “Dead Air”
Day Keene, “He Who Dies Last, Dies Hardest” (reprint from 1943)
Raymond Drennen, Jr., “Pennies From Hell”
Rufus Bakalor, “A Hitch in Crime”
Don James, “Babe and the Hoods”
Duane Yarnell, “Death on the Menu” (Patrolman Kelly)

[I wonder which was reversed – the image of the painting or the image for the cover…]





