cover art by Charles Dameron
Category: Hardboiled
February 1931 issue ~ cover art by R.C. Wardell
April 15, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig
cover art by William Reusswig
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Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Dance of the Snakes” (Small, Weston & Burke)
Oscar Schisgall, “Fangs of the Wolf” (Doctor Dyme)
John Lawrence, “Portrait in Crimson” (Sam Beckett)
Robert Barbour Johnson, “The Cancer Devil”
Howard E. Morgan, “The Red Scarab” (Blaze Quent)
November 1930 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig
September 1935 issue ~ cover art by John A. Coughlin
March 1955 issue ~ cover art by Malcolm W. Graveline
February 1953 issue
May 1945 issue
Build My Gallows High/Out of the Past
1946 William Morrow, first edition.
Geoffrey Homes, Build My Gallows High, 1946 Morrow hardcover
1956 Ace Double paperback reissue
cover art by Harry Barton
basis for the 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past
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August 1939 issue
August 1939 issue – final issue under this name, changed to Gangland Detective Stories in November
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SMB Noir 