[post updated 4/20/24]
Category: pulp
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
1950 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, first edition
surreal cover illustration by Artzybasheff
May 1938 issue ~ cover art by Richard Lyon
November 1933 issue ~ cover art by Delos Palmer
November 1939 issue
October 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
November 1937 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
March 1936 issue ~ cover art by Jerome Rozen
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
SMB Noir 
