Category: crime fiction

November 1942 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

Memo from the Murdered, 10 Story Detective cover, November 1942
Oil on canvas
29-1/4 x 20 inches (74.3 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower left
Dated and titled on the reverse

March 4, 1939 issue

March 4, 1939

cover art by William Reusswig?

Cornell Woolrich’s “Those Who Kill” published, which he expanded into Phantom Lady

better image than previously posted

[updated 6/27/25]

December 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

December 1935

better image than previously posted

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

“The Curse of Cardigan” (PI Cardigan), Frederick Nebel

“Rapped in Cellophane” (Mark Hall), J. Allan Dunn

“Murder on the Mississippi” (Rambler Murphy), Fred MacIsaac

“The House of Sudden Sleep” (Leon Pell), Hugh B. Cave

“Dead on her Feet” (Det. Smith), Cornell Woolrich

“Blood Orchids” (Dade), O.B. Myers

August 1959 issue

August 1959 issue

cover art by Robert Maguire?

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Ed Lacy, “Killer Nymph”

Fletcher Flora, “Redheads on the Rocks”

Gil Brewer, “Harlot House”

Alex Austin, “The Only Junkie in Town”

Talmage Powell, “A Cell to Go Home To”

C.B. Gilford, “Die Slow, Sucker”

H.A. DeRosso, “Stakeout”

Simon Danghy, “The Devil to Slay”

Thomas Elliot, “Sailor Boy”