February 1941 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

February 1941 issue

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cover by Norman Saunders

Lawrence Treat, “Harlequin’s Death Mask” (Paul W. “Galahad” Baxter)

Anthony Clemens, “Suicide Express”

Wallace Umphrey, “Homicide Hunch”

Emile C. Tepperman, “Parade of the Wooden Kimonos” (Marty Quade)

Hal Quincy, “Murder’s Bargain Day”

Joe Archibald, “Slip Service” (Dizzy Duo)

Cliff Walters, “Big-House Heritage”

Walter Roeber Schmidt, “Crimson Shroud”

Clark Frost, “The Phantom Witness”

H. Q. Masur, “Coffin Conference” (Joe Brion)

March 1939 issue ~ cover art by Alfred G. Skrenda

March 1930 issue

cover art by Alfred G. Skrenda

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May 1938 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

May 1938 issue

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cover art by John Fleming Gould

Fred MacIsaac, “Nobody’s Stooge” (Rambler Murphy)

William E. Barrett, “The Devil’s Dice” (Blue Barrel)

John K. Butler, “Why Shoot a Corpse?” (Tricky Enright)

O.B. Myers, “The Golden Gag”

Cornell Woolrich, “Short-Order Kill”

Robert Sidney Bowen, “Five Seconds to Murder”

Lawrence Treat, “The Ghoul with the Green Eyes”

November 1929 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

November 1929 issue, Joseph T. Shaw, editor

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cover painting by J.W. Schlaikjer

Frederick Nebel, “Hell-Smoke” (Capt. MacBride novelette)

Dashiell Hammett, “The Maltese Falcon” (part two of the serialized novel before publication as a novel – first appearance of this section- not even mentioned on the cover)

Earl and Marion Scott, “The Second Spartan”

Carroll John Daly, “The Silver Eagle” (Race Williams novelette)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Brass Tacks” (Ed Jenkins novelette)

Tom Curry, “The Man from Headquarters”

Henry Wallace Phillips, “The Demon in the Canyon”

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February 1936 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

February 1936 issue

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cover art by Rudolph Belarski

Richard B. Sale, “Murder to Order”(Penny Packer)

Preston Grady, “Mystery of the Vampire Bat”

Charlton L. Edholm, “Fox Trail”

Edmond Hamilton, “The Ramrod Key Killings”

James W. Routh, “The Frame”

Darrell Jordan, “The Perfect Set-Up”

Arthur J. Burks, “Death by Inches” (Duff Braden)

Forbes Parkhill, “Playboy”

Donald S. Aitken, “Millionaire Complex”

Norman A. Daniels, “The Painted Trail”

William G. Bogart, “Tapped Wires”

July 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1947 issue

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cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Thorne Lee, “The Face of Fear”

Charles Beckman, Jr., “Died in the Wool”

Joel Townsley Rogers, “Killing Time”

Larry Holden, “Port of the Dead”

Gayle Roberts, Jr., “Trigger Man”

Curt Hamlin, “Death Is a Small Thing”

Ted Stratton, “On Borrowed Crime”

Todhunter Ballard (W.T. Ballard), “Bury Me Not”