December 2, 2025 – SMB Noir

August 10, 1946 issue ~ cover art by Pete Kuhlhoff

cover art by Pete Kuhlhoff

cover art by Malvin Singer

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John K. Butler, “The Secret of the Wax Lady” (Tricky Enright)

Edward S. Williams, “Money in the Trees” (Paul Dana)

J.A.L. Chambliss, “A Corpse in the Rough” (Sid Harrison)

William Edward Hayes, “The Strip-Tease Murders” (Pete Niles)

Thorp McClusky, “Phantom Fingerprint”

O.B. Myers, “Death Takes the Winner”

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Peter Paige, “The Riddle of Pap Rio” (Cash Wale)

H.H. Stinson, “The Good-Murder Policy” (Pete Rousseau)

D.L. Champion, “One Killer Too Many” (Insp. Allhoff)

Frederick C. Davis, “All This and Homicide Too” (Sam Squire of the Drumm Agency)

August 1936 issue

June 1945

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

July 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Ralph Oppenheim, “Beauty Treatments for Corpses” [Daniel Craig (The Bystander)]

Wyatt Blassingame, “The Doctor Says—Die!” (Joe Gee)

Stewart Sterling, “Bodies to Burn”

Costa Carousso, “Satan’s Broiler”

Russell Gray, “Death’s Gray Sisters”

W. Wayne Robbins, “Asylum for Murder”