
cover art by Hibbard V.B. Kline



1964 paperback original – cover art by Robert McGinnis




1979 German edition – cover art by Robert McGinnis

pseudonym of Richard S. Prather
1952 Graphic paperback original – better image than previously posted
reissued as The Scrambled Yeggs


undated Fawcett reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1966 Fawcett paperback original
cover art by Jack Thurston
brother of CIA magician David Atlee Philips
repurposed for 1967 German edition of Circus of Death, 1965




November 1936 issue
cover art by Malvin Singer
November 1936 issue
cover art by Malvin Singer
better image than previously posted
Frederick Nebel, “Make Mine Murder” (Cardigan), reprinted in The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 4 (Altus Press, 2012)
Leslie T. White, “So You Won’t Talk, Eh?” (Duke Martindel)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Two Sticks of Death” (Small, Weston & Burke)
Fred MacIsaac, “The Corpse in the Taxicab” (Rainbow Murphy)
“The Tongueless Men”
– Chapter 1: John Lawrence, “The Blonde with the Purple Tongue”
– Chapter 2: T.T. Flynn, “The Vanishing Prelate”
– Chapter 3: Carroll John Daly, “The Broken Bank”
– Chapter 4: Frederick C. Davis, “The Lost Stairway”
– Chapter 5: Warren E. Barrett, “Only Two Swords”
[Taylor notes in his Companion: ” This is the fifth anniversary issue. To celebrate, a contest was built around a round-robin story, ‘The Tongueless Men’, where readers were supposed to identify which writer did each chapter.“]