1952 Dell mapback – cover art by Willard Downes

pseudonym of Prentice Winchell, just one of the many pen-names he used.

1950 Dutton hardcover, this the later 1`952 Dell softcover

his seventh novel, third with hotel detective Gil Vine

cover art by Willard Downes

better image than previously posted

February 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

February 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Damon Knight, “Slayer’s Solo”

Day Keene, “Doc Egg’s Graveyard Reunion” (Doc Egg)   

Ejler Jacobson, “The Little Red Murder School”

Ken Lewis, “Country Cadaver”

Talmage Powell, “Stay as Dead as You Are”

Ken Kessler: “The Crimson Thread”

Robert Bloch, “The Noose Hangs High”

John Corbett, “Hound of Hell”

Milton T. Land, “Home to the Kill” 

R. Sprague Hall, “The Case of the Walking God”