cover art by H.L. Parkhurst
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Month: July 2025
July 27, 1929 issue ~ cover art by John A. Coughlin
December 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Frederick C. Davis, “Open the Morgue, Richard!” (Thackeray Hackett)
Thorne Lee, “A Corpse Slept Here”
James Howard Leveque, “A Share in the Slaughter”
Mark Mallory, “Killer Take All”
Don James, “I’ll Never Slay Again”
Charles Larson, “Brat’s Brew o’Murder”
Robert Turner, “Crime Doesn’t Play”
January 1942 issue
September 28, 1929 issue ~ cover art by John A. Coughlin
May 1949 issue
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Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Carnival Kill” (Cash Wale)
Theodore Sturgeon, “Die, Maestro, Die!”
Carroll John Daly, “Half a Corpse” (Race Williams)
Larry J. Marcus, “Dead Man Blues”
R.M.F. Joses, “Bad to the Last Drop”
Robert Carlton, “Sealed with a Kiss” (Mike Brent)
John D. MacDonald, “You’ll Never Escape”
later UK edition, includes five pieces from US May 1949 edition
Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Carnival Kill”
Theodore Sturgeon, “Die Maestro, Die!”
Larry J. Marcus, “Dead Man Blues”
R.M.F. Joses, “Bad to the Last Drop”
Ted Palmer, “The June Thrill Docket”
stories by Daly, Carlton and MacDonald omitted
March 1949 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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T.T. Flynn, “Mr. Maddox’s Murder Parlay” (Mr. Maddox)
Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Slaughter in a Sarong” (Shamus Larkin)
John D. MacDonald, “I’ll Drown You in My Dreams”
Robert Martin, “Just a Corpse at Twilight”
Shane Darcy, “Dames Like Killing Too”
Harry Mason, “Death for Dessert”
1953 Gold Medal paperback original – cover art by Barye Phillips
Burnett, W[illiam] R[iley], writing as “John Monahan.” BIG STAN. New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1953]. Small octavo, cover art by Barye Phillips, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #355. Paperback original. hard-boiled novel. Faint crease to spine edge, rubbing to rear spine edge, a near fine copy.
cover art by Barye Phillips
October 1949 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams Cooks a Goose”
John D. MacDonald, “Target for Tonight”
William P. McGivern, “Hunt Her in Hell”
Raymond Drennan, Jr., “He Woke Up Dying”
Preston Grady, “Killing’s Too Easy”
Charles Larson, “My Crime – Your Punishment”
SMB Noir 