
June 1945
cover art by Rudolph Belarski

July 1940 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Ralph Oppenheim, “Beauty Treatments for Corpses” [Daniel Craig (The Bystander)]
Wyatt Blassingame, “The Doctor Says—Die!” (Joe Gee)
Stewart Sterling, “Bodies to Burn”
Costa Carousso, “Satan’s Broiler”
Russell Gray, “Death’s Gray Sisters”
W. Wayne Robbins, “Asylum for Murder”

1935 Morrow hardcover, this the later 1941 Pocket paperback
3rd with Sir Henry Merrivale, master of the ‘impossible crime’ solution

cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
Hank Searls, “Auld Land Crime”
Richard F. Glendinning, “Sitting Duck Running Wild”
Frederick C. Davis, “Tune in on Murder” (Keyhole Kerry), reprinted from 1936
Mel Cotton, “Her Perfect Frame” (Shamus Buster)
Morris Cooper, “The Grave Killer”
Corretta Slavsky, “Checkmated!”
Robert Turner, “Slay, Maestro, Slay!”


December 1940 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
Carroll John Daly, “The Strange Case of Iva Grey” (Connelly)
Cleve F. Adams, “Murder While You Wait” (Conner O’Melveny)
John Lawrence, “Nothing for Christmas” (Marquis of Broadway)
Merle Costiner, “You’re in My Way (The Dean)
Fletcher D. Slater, “Red Light” (Eddie West)