Category: mystery

March 1936 issue

March 1936 issue

cover art attributed Malvin Singer, Walter Baumhofer, or Tom Lovell?

better image than previously posted

Leslie T. White, “Matches in Hell” (Tod Naughton, arson dick)

Frederick Nebel, “The Sign of Murder” (Cardigan)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Silent Giantess” (Carter Cole, MD)

John Lawrence, “The Dope in the Death House (Colin Barr)

William E. Barrett, “The Blue Barrel” (Dean Culver, underworld gossip columnist)

August 15, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Newton Howitt

August 15, 1934 issue

cover art by John Newton Howitt

better image than previously posted

Frederick Nebel, “Not So Tough” (Cardigan)

Fred MacIsaac, “Murder Reel” (Rambler Murphy)

J. Paul Suter, “Dead and Buried” (Horatio Humberton)

John Lawrence, “Guilty Party” (Cass Blue)

Edward S. Williams, “Seven Days Missing” (Det. Vance)

Dwight V. Babcock, “Pearls Without Publicity” (Kirk Daniels & Marcia Winters)

Anson Hatch, “Phantom Footsteps (Det. Larry Gilden)

April 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

April 1943 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “A Horse of Another Killer, (Mr. Maddox)

C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Fingers of Ice” (Colonel Kaspir)

Norbert Davis, “Too Many Have Died” (Peter Tracy)

William Brandon, “Quiet Street”

Mark Lish, “Ashes in the Valley”

January 1944 issue ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll

January 1944 issue

cover art by Gloria Stoll

better image than previously posted

Stewart Sterling, “The Secret of Madam Zenobia” (Gil Vine)

Noel Loomis, “Dummies Don’t Bleed!“

Bruno Fischer, “The Case of the Handless Corpse”

Francis K. Allan, “Death at the Brimstone Border”

Curtiss T. Gardner, “Satan’s Insidious Chessmen” (Val Vickers)

William R. Cox, “Hell Over Hollywood” (Tom Kincaid)

March 15, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Newton Howitt

March 15, 1934 issue

cover art by John Newton Howitt

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “Red Alibi” (Bob Blair)

Eric Taylor, “The Barbary Horrors” (Det. Jess Arno)

Frederick C. Davis, “Murder in Bronze” (John Law, PI)

only issue on which the magazine title appeared in red instead of the usual yellow