July 1938 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

July 1938 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

Carroll John Daly, “A Corpse for a Corpse” (Race Williams)

Will McMorrow, “The House with the Red Door)

D.L. Champion, “Footprints on a Brain” (Insp. Allhoff)

T.T. Flynn, “Mr. Maddox and the Gray Ghost”

Jan Dana, “Murder for Not Much”

better image than previously posted

[updated 2/1/26]

April 10, 1932 issue ~ cover art by Remington Schuyler

April 10, 1932

cover art by Remington Schuyler

The Drowning Pool x 4

December 1959 Pocket paperback, 2nd print

2nd Lew Archer, an August 1950 Knopf hardcover

cover painting by James Meese

1966 Pocket reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett

1974 Bantam reissue

British 1975 Fontana movie tie-in

Australian 2012 Penguin reissue

Australian 2023 Penguin reissue

[updated 8/20/26]

January 3, 1931 issue ~ cover art by John A. Coughlin

Herman Landon, “The Picaroon Handcuffed  [Part 1 of 4; Martin Dale (The Picaroon)]

Ernest M. Poate, “Murder Scars”  [Part 3 of 3]  

Johnston McCulley, “Sneaky’s Christmas Pearls”

Charlotte Dockstader, “Christmas Under Cove”

John Foland, “A Man in Her Stocking”    

Donald Van Riper, “Holiday Pickings”

Alfred I. Tooke, “The Dagger of Hop See”