October 21, 1939 issue ~ cover by Rudolph Belarski

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cover by Rudolph Belarski

Fred R. Miller, “Dead Man’s Blues”

Hugh B. Cave, “But Few Are Chosen”

Walter Ripperger , “Are You Planning to Die?” (Part 3 of 6; C.O. Ponder)

Joseph Fulling Fishman, “New Year Murder Riddle”

J. Lane Linklater, “Knife Thrust”, Gang World, September 1931

Stookie Allen – Copper!: Scientific Sherlock

Robert Leslie Bellem, “Night Beat”

Philip Ketchum, “Getaway Car”

M.E. Ohaver, “Solving Cipher Secrets”

May 30, 1936 issue

first appearance of Raymond Chandler’s “Noon Street Nemesis”, which would later be reissued as “Pick-Up on Noon Street” for The Simple Art of Murder

surreal cover illustration by Artzybasheff

October 1949 issue

October 1949 issue

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Lauri Wirta, “Devil’s Island—New Style”

Ted Palmer: Popular Films

Talmage Powell, “Time of the Demon”

Frederick Blakeslee: Adventures into the Unknown

John D. MacDonald, “Last Rendezvous”

Day Keene, “The Laughing Dead”

Larry Holden, “Bloody Night!“

Margaret St. Clair, “Nightmare Lady”

Lix Agrabee, “The Corpse Came Back!“

Mayan & Jakobsson: Macabre Museum

Benjamin Siegel, “While the Killers Wait…”

Skippy Adelman, “The Crimson Pool”

William Campbell Gault, “Return to Terror”

The Editor: Mystery’s Dark Portals