Category: crime fiction

October 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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John K. Butler, “Hacker’s Holiday” (Steve Midnight)

John Lawrence, “Gallows 9” (Marquis of Broadway)

D.L. Champion, “Suicide in Blue (Insp. Allhoff)

Roger Torrey, “Candidate for a Killing”

O.B. Myers, “Death Laughs at Locksmiths”

May 1939 issue

May 1939 issue

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Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Killer-Diller”

Jan Dana, “Movable Alibi” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Leslie T. White, “Whole Hog or Nothing” (Sergeant Mackey)

O.B. Myers, “Cash on the Line”

Herbert Koehl, “Too Many Lefts”

Jackson Gregory, Jr., “Black is White”

April 1949 issue

April 1949 issue

cover art by Albert Drake?

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Robert Martin, “Murder the Bum” (Stephen Abbott)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Merry Queen of Murder” (Thackeray Hackett)

John D. MacDonald, “The Corpse Belongs to Daddy” (Donald Cheyne)

James A. Kirch, “Shoot If You Must” (Brad Harkness)

Dorothy Dunn, “Oblivion for Me” (Hollis Dorsey)

Johanas L. Bouma, “Bury Your Own Dead” (Joe Bowers)

Stuart Friedman, “Angel in the Deathhouse” (Thad Preston)

Jack Winters, “Slayer at Sea” (Thomas Brain)

October 1941 issue ~ cover art by Milton Luros

October 1941 issue

cover art by Milton Luros

better image than previously posted

D.L. Champion, “The Corpse That Wasn’t There” (Insp. Allhoff)

Norbert Davis, “Come UP and Kill Me Some Time” (Bail Bond Dodd)

Cornell Woolrich, “Murder at Mother’s Knee” (Johnny Gaines)

T.T. Flynn, “Salt Water Slay-Ride”

Jan Dana, “Death with Father” (Acme Indemnity Op)