April 1964 Belmont paperback original
13th with Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg
cover art by Victor Kalin
better image than previously posted
better image than previously posted
Swing Low Swing Dead x 3
Category: crime fiction
2 Lenient Beasts
Savage Bride x 2
1950 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
new cover art by Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted
Kill the Boss Good-by x 2
1956 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted
cover art by Kirwin
Guilty Bystander x 7 + 2
1947 Farrar Strauss hardcover
1948 Penguin/Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Jonas
1954 Signet reissue – cover art by Saul Tepper
Mitchell Hooks (American, 1923-2013)
Gouache on board, 30 x 18-1/4 inches (76.2 x 46.4 cm)
Initialed center right: MH
July 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
September 1948 issue ~ cover art by Albert Drake
cover art by Albert Drake
Frederick C. Davis, “Man About Murder”
T.T. Flynn, “I’ll Bet Your Life!” (Mr. Maddox)
Robert Martin, “Doctor of Doom”
Richard Dermody, “Cupid for Cash” (Doc Pierce)
Dean Evans, “Dreams Get Blasted, Too”
Russell Branch, “A Corpse Had Cold Feet”
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July 15, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig
cover art by William Reusswig
T.T. Flynn, “Torture Tavern” (Val Easton vs. Black Doctor)
Ralph Oppenheim, “The Death Lady” (Glen Kelsey, PI)
Frederick Nebel, “Scrambled Murder” (Cardigan)
Edward Parrish Ware, “The Gallows Cure”
September 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
cover art by Tom Lovell
better image than previously posted
Frederick C. Davis, “The Coming of the Mad Ones”
Paul Ernst, “Corpses in the Barn”
H.M. Appel, “We Are the Damned”
Clark Clayton, “Breakfast for the Dying”
Dale Clark, “Hounds of the Restless Dead”
Wayne Rogers, “Satan’s Slave Market”
January 1942 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
Stewart Sterling, “Bull-Market for the Dying”
Francis K. Allan, “Am I the Corpse’s Keeper?“
William R. Cox, “Beware the Black Queen” (Tom Kincaid)
Wayne Rogers, “Murder Town”
Dane Gregory, “All at Once—No Wednesday!“
Russell Gray, “Death Hitch-Hikes South”
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