cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Month: June 2025
September 1949 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
February 1949 issue
March 1942 issue
1950 Popular Library reissue
1936 Simon & Schuster hardcover
cover art attributed to Rudolph Belarski
better image than previously posted
made into a movie in 1940 from MGM, Strange Cargo,starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford
June 1953 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Second Massacre!” (Cash Wale)
D.L. Champion, “Toast the Poison Princess” (A. Dasher)*
J.L. Bouma, “ – And Hope to Die!”
Charles Beckman, Jr., “How to Kill a Corpse”
Fletcher Flora, “ – Time to Kill – ”
Grover Brinkman, “Last Warning!”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Dope in the Dark”
Dennis Wiegano, “Letter of the Law”
* “Toast the Poison Princess” reprinted from 1945
June 1950 issue
July 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “Dead Men Don’t Scare”
Talmage Powell, “Forget-Me-Not Killer”
Frederick C. Davis, “If the Noose Fits”
Robert Turner, “Murder in Her Wake”
Van MacNair, Jr., “White-Collar Stiff”
Russell Branch, “So Sorry – So Dead”
Scott O’Hara, “Five-Star Fugitive” (pen name of MacDonald’s)
cover art by Rudolph Belarski x 2
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cover art by Rudolph Belarski – repurposed for…
1949 Popular Library paperback original
better image than previously posted
collection of novelettes
SMB Noir 
