Category: finest kind

Seven Slayers x 5

1946 Chartered digest paperback original

better image than previously posted

1950 Avon paperback original, 1st printing, seven stories originally published in Black Mask Magazine

“Black” (May 1932)

“Red 71” (December 1932)

“Parlor Trick” (July 1932)

“One, Two, Three” (May 1933)

“Murder in Blue” (June 1933) – “Murder Done in Blue” in the original magazine

“Pigeon Blood” (November 1933)

“Pineapple” (March 1936)

1987 Black Lizard reissue

cover art by Kirwin

1987 Blood & Guts hardcover reissue

cover art by Joe Servello

February 2012 Centipede hardcover

cover art by Ron Lesser

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May 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1943 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Cornell Woolrich, “Mind over Murder”

W.T. Ballard, “A Heel of the First Water”

Dale Clark, “Death is from Taxes” (Plates O’Rion)

Duane Yarnell, “Murder is My Meat”

Frederick C. Davis, “Home Sweet Homicide” (Bill Brant)

Henry Norton, “Bait”

[updated 5/14/25]