
James T. Farrell, “The Old Flame”
Frank Kane, “Lead Ache” (Johnny Liddell)
Richard Deming, “The Blonde in the Bar”
Jack Webb, “Broken Doll“

James T. Farrell, “The Old Flame”
Frank Kane, “Lead Ache” (Johnny Liddell)
Richard Deming, “The Blonde in the Bar”
Jack Webb, “Broken Doll“

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]

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)
[cover updated 3/19/26]

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”