
1949 Dodd Mead hardcover
cover art by Robert Stanley

cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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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]

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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”