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November 1936 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

November 1936 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

November 1936 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

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Frederick Nebel, “Make Mine Murder” (Cardigan), reprinted in The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 4 (Altus Press, 2012)

Leslie T. White, “So You Won’t Talk, Eh?” (Duke Martindel)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Two Sticks of Death” (Small, Weston & Burke)

Fred MacIsaac, “The Corpse in the Taxicab” (Rainbow Murphy)

“The Tongueless Men”

 – Chapter 1: John Lawrence, “The Blonde with the Purple Tongue”

 – Chapter 2: T.T. Flynn, “The Vanishing Prelate”

 – Chapter 3: Carroll John Daly, “The Broken Bank”

 – Chapter 4: Frederick C. Davis, “The Lost Stairway”

 – Chapter 5: Warren E. Barrett, “Only Two Swords”

[Taylor notes in his Companion: ” This is the fifth anniversary issue. To celebrate, a contest was built around a round-robin story, ‘The Tongueless Men’, where readers were supposed to identify which writer did each chapter.“]

November 1937 issue

November 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer?

Leslie T. White, “Corpse Crazy” (Duke Martindel)

Raymond Chandler, “Mandarin’s Jade” (John Dalmas)

John K. Butler, “The Pied Piper of Frisco” (Rex Lonergan)

Hugh B. Cave, “Twenty After Murder” (Jitters Johnson)

Jan Dana, “Dead Failure”

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October 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

October 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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T.T. Flynn, “The Ghost Whistle” (Bill Wallace)

Frederick Nebel, “Death in the Raw” (Cardigan)

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Chain” (Needle Mike)

Frederick C. Davis,“The Case of the Skinned Man” (Carter Cole, MD)

O.B. Myers, “The Corpse Master” (Det. Cutter)

March 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

March 1939 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

Carroll John Daly, “Hell with the Lid Lifted” (Race Williams)

John Lawrence, “The Stars Said Murder” (Marquis of Broadway)

William Edward Hayes, “The Farraday Phantom”

O.B. Myers, “The Body in Booth One”

Wyatt Blassingame, “The Corpse Played Possum”

Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr., “Death Racket” (reprinted in 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, 1993)