cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Category: mystery
October 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Mel Cotton, “Kill and Make Up” (Det. Winters)
Talmage Powell, “There Was a Crooked Man”
Cornell Woolrich, “The Fatal Footlights” (reprinted from 1941)
Walter Snow, “Exclusive Sucker”
W.P. Brothers, “Mourner’s Bench”
Harvey Weinstein, “Spoiler for a Wise Guy”
Robert Martin, “Murder on the Make”
1954 Graphic reissue
1950 Jenkins hardcover in the UK, published as a US hardcover by Random House in 1949, this the later Graphic softcover
far from his Fu Manchu thrillers, Hangover House was based on his unproduced stage play, a traditional manor house whodunnit.
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December 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Merle Constiner, “Parade of Empty Shoes” (The Dean)
Norbert Davis, “Take It From Me” (Bail-Bond Dodd)
Day Keene, “The Female is More Deadly” (P.I. Case)
Tom Marvin, “The Ghost Wore His Hat” (Shag Kyper)
D.L. Champion, “Imperfect Alibi”
November 1949 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
January 1948 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
October 1949 issue
December 1951 issue
November 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
Dale Clark, “Stay, Fido, Stay” (Highland Park “High” Price)
Lawrence Treat, “Death on the Palette”
G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Dig a Grave for Me”
Alan Farley, “A Mouse in the Hand”
Julius Long, “C.D. for Corpus Delicti” (Clarence Darrow Mort)
Henry Norton, “No Tears for the Lady”
[updated 11/15/25]
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