Category: Hardboiled
August 1, 1941 issue ~ cover art by Graves Gladney
August 1938 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
August 1939 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
January-February 1940 issue
April 1933 issue
April 1933 – second issue
April 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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T.T. Flynn, “The Devil’s Derby” (Mr. Maddox)
Raymond Chandler, “Pearls are a Nuisance”
Fred MacIsaac, “Murder at the Beauty Show” (Rambler Murphy)
John Lawrence, “Old Wives’ Tale” (Marquis of Broadway)
Dale Clark, “Mercy Killing”
with a simple listing of his name on the cover, along with those of his colleagues, the editors could not have been aware that they were publishing one of Raymond Chandler’s masterpieces. The Big Sleep had been published just two months before, on February 6.
September 1937 issue ~ cover art by Jerome Rozen
November 1936 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski
June 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
better image than previously posted
Hugh B. Cave, “Satan’s Mistress”
John H. Knox, “The Dead Demand Tribute”
Wyatt Blassingame, “They Thirst by Night”
Arthur J. Burks, “Women of Stone”
Chandler H. Whipple, “White Lady of Hell”
Ray Cummings, “Moonlight and Jungle”
Paul Ernst, “Her Spirit Lover”
