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May 1, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Howitt

May 1, 1934 issue

cover art by John Howitt

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“Read ‘Em and Weep” (Cardigan) by Frederick Nebel

“The Smoking Corpse” (Edward Delane, lawyer) by Erle Stanley Gardner

“The Duchess of Death” (Jones & Jones) by Maxwell Hawkins

“Hot Money” (Johnny Cass) by R.D. Torrey

“Zero Hour” (Willy Hansen) by Anson Hatch

also includes letter from Carroll John Daly announcing new radio program featuring his character Vee Brown

2013 Penguin trade paperback

edited by Sarah Weinman, an historical survey of the “Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense”.

authors include Shirley Jackson, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Elizabeth Sanxay Holding, Helen Neilsen, Patricia Highsmith, Margaret Millar and Vera Caspary.

cover art by Onzi Brown

April 1954 issue

[last cover updated 4/13/25]

April 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

April 1946

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

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cover art repurposed for1949 Popular Library paperback reprint

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