cover art by R.C. Wardell
better image than previously posted
Hersey swastika: “The Symbol of Good Reading – A Hersey Magazine”
August 1929 issue ~ cover art by R.C. Wardell
Category: Hardboiled
1949 Dell mapback
better image than previously posted
his 3rd novel, a tale of municipal corruption, published two years before his first Lew Archer
February-March 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer
April 1951 issue
June 1934 issue ~ cover art by Fred Madan
July 1941 issue
March 1945 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward
cover art by H.J. Ward
better image than previously posted
altered artwork from December 1941 Private Detective
[cover updated 1/10/26]
January 1966 issue
March 1942 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward
February 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Brazen Ghost”
Frederick C. Davis, “Tall, Dark, and Deadly”
Robert Turner, “Murder on My Mitts”
John D. MacDonald, “High Walls of Hate”
Johanas L. Bouma, “Homicidal Harmony”
Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Murchison Got a Gun”
L.S. Goldsmith, “Black Spots of Doom”
SMB Noir 
