March 2026 – Page 16

November 1941 issue

cover art by John Newton Howitt

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Carroll John Daly, “Ticket to Murder” (Clay Holt)

George Harmon Coxe, “The Flaming Shadow” (Det. Carson)

Max Brand, “Wet Money” (Dave Clovelly)

Oscar Schisgall, “Palooka Death Pawn”

Anson Hatch, “Dumb Double” (Det. Jack Farley)

Robert C. Blackmon, “The Body in the Loge”

Richard Hoadley Tingley, “Crossroads of Crime #1”

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cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Frederick Nebel, “Murder by Mail” (Cardigan)

Hugh B. Cave, “The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” (Martin Lane)

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Circle” (Needle Mike)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Queen’s Headsman” (Carter Cole)

Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Corpse in Seat 2” (Kip Lacey)

“Murder by Mail” was reprinted in Hard-Boiled Dames (St. Martin’s, 1986) and The Complete Cases of Cardigan (Altus Press, 2011)

“The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action (Carroll & Graff, 2001)

cover art by Delos Palmer

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Day Keene, “Rhapsody in Blood”

Francis K. Allan, “The Dead Are Not Beautiful”

Frederick C. Davis, “Corpses in the Rain”

Fredric Brown, “A Lock of Satan’s Hair”

Robert Turner, “Music for the Murder Maestro”