February 1939 issue
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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John K. Butler, “County Cleanup” (Tricky Enright)
Warren E. Barrett, “The Mad Mayor” (Blue Barrel)
Leslie T. White, “Dangerous But Passable!”
Erle Pierce, Jr., “Mum’s the Word for Murder”
Jan Dana, “Single Indemnity” (Acme Insurance Op)
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Frederick Nebel, “Murder by Mail” (Cardigan)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” (Martin Lane)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Circle” (Needle Mike)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Queen’s Headsman” (Carter Cole)
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Corpse in Seat 2” (Kip Lacey)
“Murder by Mail” was reprinted in Hard-Boiled Dames (St. Martin’s, 1986) and The Complete Cases of Cardigan (Altus Press, 2011)
“The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action (Carroll & Graff, 2001)
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