
New Detective Magazine, May 1948


[updated 11/30/25]

cover art by Ernest Chiriacka
Talmage Powell, “Uneasy Lies the Headstone” (Abner Murder/Mr. Murder)
Joe Archibald, “One Meat Brawl” (Dizzy Duo)
William Hellman (given as by William Hellmann), “A Word to the Wiseguy”
Emil Petaja, “Welcome Home to Nightmare”
Bill Morgan, “Death Paints a Poster”
E.C. Marshall, “Murder after the Fact”
William Rough, “Say Hello to Satan”
Lewis A. Keppen, “No License to Slay”
Berna Morris, “Station K-I-L-L Calling”
Rex Whitechurch, “Homicide’s Crimson Chariot” (Jerry Carlton)


G.T. Fleming -Roberts, “Lady Killer!“
D.L. Champion, “Yuma Appointment”
Frances Beck, “The Last, Long Ride”
Cyril Plunkett, “Second Kill”
Henry Norton, “Cadaver Wanted—Dead or Alive!“
Frances M. Deegan, “Torch Song”
Robert C. Dennis, “Crabtree’s Favorite Corpse”
Francis K. Allan, “Stand-in for Death”
Day Keene, “Murder on My Mind”

