December 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

December 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Carroll John Daly, “The Strange Case of Iva Grey” (Connelly)

Cleve F. Adams, “Murder While You Wait” (Conner O’Melveny)

John Lawrence, “Nothing for Christmas” (Marquis of Broadway)

Merle Costiner, “You’re in My Way (The Dean)

Fletcher D. Slater, “Red Light” (Eddie West)

July 1941 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1941 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Norbert Davis, “Watch Me Kill You!” (Max Latin)

James A. Kirch, “The Murder Master”

John K. Butler, “Dead Man’s Alibi” (Steve Midnight)

Cleve F. Adams, “Forty Pains” (O’Melveny and Dugan)

O.B. Myers, “The Wild Man of Wall Street”

cover art by George Geygan

George Geygan (American, 20th Century)
Dig Me A Grave by John Spain (Bantam, 1951)
Oil on canvas, 22 x 15-1/2 inches (55.9 x 39.4 cm)
Signed lower right: geygan

pseudonym of Cleve F. Adams

1942 Dutton hardcover

first book published under this pen name

1st of two with private eye Bill Rye