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cover art by Graves Gladney

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cover by Rudolph Belarski
Fred R. Miller, “Dead Man’s Blues”
Hugh B. Cave, “But Few Are Chosen”
Walter Ripperger , “Are You Planning to Die?” (Part 3 of 6; C.O. Ponder)
Joseph Fulling Fishman, “New Year Murder Riddle”
J. Lane Linklater, “Knife Thrust”, Gang World, September 1931
Stookie Allen – Copper!: Scientific Sherlock
Robert Leslie Bellem, “Night Beat”
Philip Ketchum, “Getaway Car”
M.E. Ohaver, “Solving Cipher Secrets”

first appearance of Raymond Chandler’s “Noon Street Nemesis”, which would later be reissued as “Pick-Up on Noon Street” for The Simple Art of Murder

1950 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, first edition
surreal cover illustration by Artzybasheff

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cover by H.J. Ward
Morgan Lafay, “Cargo for Hell”
Lew Merrill, “Bat Man”
Robert Leslie Bellem, “Shadows Pass”
E. Hoffmann Price, “Desert Magic”
Jerome Severs Perry, “Graveyard Honeymoon”
Clint Morgan, “Two Must Pay”
Don King, “The Devil Takes His Dead”
Cary Moran, “A Student of the Stars”
Arthur Wallace, “Maggots of Madness”