
cover art by F. R. Glass
(“Triple-X” refers to three types of stories)

cover art by R.C. Wardell
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Hersey swastika: “The Symbol of Good Reading – A Hersey Magazine”

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Robert Martin, “Death Gives a Permanent Wave” (PI Jim Bennett)
D.L. Champion, “Slaying Room Only!”
John D. MacDonald, “Oh, Give Me a Hearse”
Charles Larson, “Covet and Kill”
Richard E. Glendinning, “Invitation to Hell”
Paula Elliot, “Murder is Too Personal“
Frank Ward, “Nightmare Alley”


14th in his long-running 87th Precinct series
1961 Simon & Schuster hardcover
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cover art by Robert McGinnis

[perhaps my favorite cover but do not know the artist – at this point]
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Frederick C. Davis, “Let the Skeletons Rattle” (Bill Brent)
Sam Merwin Jr., “Caviar for the Killer” (Sgt. Lanning)
Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Maladroit Manicurist”
D.L. Champion, “Curtain Call”
O.B. Myers, “Bonds to Burn”


June-July 1949 issue