Category: mystery

August 1959 issue

August 1959 issue

cover art by Robert Maguire?

better image than previously posted

Ed Lacy, “Killer Nymph”

Fletcher Flora, “Redheads on the Rocks”

Gil Brewer, “Harlot House”

Alex Austin, “The Only Junkie in Town”

Talmage Powell, “A Cell to Go Home To”

C.B. Gilford, “Die Slow, Sucker”

H.A. DeRosso, “Stakeout”

Simon Danghy, “The Devil to Slay”

Thomas Elliot, “Sailor Boy”

February 1949 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

The Crime of My Life, 10 Story Detective cover, February 1949
Oil on board
22 x 15 inches (55.9 x 38.1 cm)
Signed lower right
Dated and titled on the reverse

[cover image updated and title page added 3/18/25]

August 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

August 1948 issue

better image than previously posted

cover art by Norman Saunders

Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams’ Double Date”

Paula Elliott, “Salt on a Siren’s Trail” (Boden)

John D. MacDonald, “Cavaliers Make Good Corpse”

Don James, “Quick Buck – Quick Kill”

Roderick Lull, “Gentleman’s Vengeance”

Ted Stratton, “Butterfly’s Bier”

[updated 5/11/25]

January 15, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

January 15, 1935

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

better image than previously posted

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Hard as Nails” (Gilbert E. Best)

Norbert Davis, “The Gin Monkey” (Max Clark)

Donald Barr Chidsey, “The Corpse Clue” (Morton & McGarvey)

Frederick C. Davis, “Tracks of the Turtles” (Oke Oakley)

Oscar Schisgall, “Murder as the Crow Flies” (Phil Drury)

Michael Kennedy, “Bodyguard” (Det. Cassidy)

July 1943 issue ~ cover art by Modest Stein

July 1943

better image than previously posted

cover art by Modest Stein

Maxwell Grant (Theodore A. Tinsley), “The Golden Doom  (Kent Allard/The Shadow)

Norman A. Daniels, “Murder in the Crystal”

Stephen Gould, “Death in Panama” (Sheridan Doome)

Jack Storm, “Murder Needs a Corpse”