Tag: cardigan

November 1936 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

November 1936 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

November 1936 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

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Frederick Nebel, “Make Mine Murder” (Cardigan), reprinted in The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 4 (Altus Press, 2012)

Leslie T. White, “So You Won’t Talk, Eh?” (Duke Martindel)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Two Sticks of Death” (Small, Weston & Burke)

Fred MacIsaac, “The Corpse in the Taxicab” (Rainbow Murphy)

“The Tongueless Men”

 – Chapter 1: John Lawrence, “The Blonde with the Purple Tongue”

 – Chapter 2: T.T. Flynn, “The Vanishing Prelate”

 – Chapter 3: Carroll John Daly, “The Broken Bank”

 – Chapter 4: Frederick C. Davis, “The Lost Stairway”

 – Chapter 5: Warren E. Barrett, “Only Two Swords”

[Taylor notes in his Companion: ” This is the fifth anniversary issue. To celebrate, a contest was built around a round-robin story, ‘The Tongueless Men’, where readers were supposed to identify which writer did each chapter.“]

October 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

October 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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T.T. Flynn, “The Ghost Whistle” (Bill Wallace)

Frederick Nebel, “Death in the Raw” (Cardigan)

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Chain” (Needle Mike)

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

O.B. Myers, “The Corpse Master” (Det. Cutter)

December 1932 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

December 1932 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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T.T. Flynn, “The Black Doctor” (Val Easton, Secret Service)

Frederick Nebel, “A Truck Load of Diamonds” (Cardigan)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Marked Money” (Dane Skarle)

Richard J. Credicott, “The Three Horrible Heads” (Anthony Fletcher)

Joseph Mulvaney, “Smart Like a Fox” (Oscar Fox)

November 15, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

November 15, 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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T.T. Flynn, “The Jade Joss” (Val Easton v. Black Doctor)

Russ Meservey, “The Swamp Lake Horrors” (Link Nace)

Frederick Nebel, “Murder a la Carte” (Cardigan)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Cross-Stitch Killer” (Paul Pry)

Photo and profile of Russ Meservey appeared on pg. 123

April 15, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

April 15, 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Frederick Nebel, “Hell Couldn’t Stop Him” (Cardigan)

Leslie T. White, “Crook for a Night” (Toby Laird)

William Edward Hayes, “The Corpse on the Semaphore” (Dan Howell)

T. T. Flynn, “The Dragons of Change Ch’ien” (Val Easton)

O.B. Myers, “Grave Mates” (Jimmy McRay)

June 1936 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

June 1936 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Frederick Nebel, “Murder by Mail” (Cardigan)

Hugh B. Cave, “The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” (Martin Lane)

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Circle” (Needle Mike)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Queen’s Headsman” (Carter Cole)

Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Corpse in Seat 2” (Kip Lacey)

“Murder by Mail” was reprinted in Hard-Boiled Dames (St. Martin’s, 1986) and The Complete Cases of Cardigan (Altus Press, 2011)

“The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action (Carroll & Graff, 2001)

January 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

January 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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Oscar Schisgall, “Claws of the Condor” (Trent & Cadwell)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Framed in Guilt” (Dane Skarle)

Frederick Nebel, “The Murder Cure” (Cardigan)

Maxwell Hawkins, “Death Tunes In” (Det. Fitzgerald)

H.M. Appel, “The Body in the Crypt”

photos of Hawkins and Appel appear on pgs. 121-22

March 1932 issue ~ cover art William Reusswig

March 1932, issue #5

cover art by William Reusswig

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Oscar Schisgall, “The Death Scream”

Edward Parrish Ware, “The Skull of Judgment” (Det. Tug Norton)

J. Allan Dunn, “Out of the Night”

Frederick Nebel, “Phantom Fingers” (Cardigan)

Carroll John Daly, “The Curtain of Frost” (Vee Brown)

Maxwell Hawkins, “Murder Digs Its Grave”

March 1936 issue

March 1936 issue

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

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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

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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)