June 1952 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

June 1952 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

Frank Ward, “The Deadliest Bride in Town!”

Fredric Brown, “To Slay a Man About a Dog!”

Larry Holden, “The Expendable Ex”

Joel Townsley Rogers, “When the Devil God Smiled”

R.M.F. Joses, Tee Lady Takes a Powder”

Frank Huepper, “Tough Guy” (Shannon)

Joseph V. Hickey, “Three for the Kill”

Dave Crockett, “Death Grip”

Dennis Wiegand, “Nobody Loves a Cop”

April 15, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Howitt

April 15, 1934 issue

cover art by John Howitt

better image than previously posted

Carroll John Daly, “Make Your Own Corpse!” (Vee Brown)

Maxwell Hawkins, “Death from Down Under” (Jones & Jones)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Silver Doom” (Oke Oakley)

1960 Great Pan reissue

“Patrick Quentin” was the pseudonym of Hugh Wheeler and Richard Wilson Webb

1960 Great Pan reissue

published in the US in 1952 as Black Widow, a Simon & Schuster hardcover. published the following year in the UK by Gollancz with this different title. 8th with Broadway producer Peter Duluth.

cover art by Sam Peffer?