June 1945
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
Tag: clown
July 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
July 1940 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Ralph Oppenheim, “Beauty Treatments for Corpses” [Daniel Craig (The Bystander)]
Wyatt Blassingame, “The Doctor Says—Die!” (Joe Gee)
Stewart Sterling, “Bodies to Burn”
Costa Carousso, “Satan’s Broiler”
Russell Gray, “Death’s Gray Sisters”
W. Wayne Robbins, “Asylum for Murder”
Kill the Clown x 3
cover art by Mitchell Hooks
1957 Perma reissue – cover art by James Meese
1956 Harper hardcover, re-titled by Collins for the UK hardcover that same year as Death in Grease Paint
first of his two mysteries with Howie Rook, middle-aged, over-weight former newspaperman and draws on the author’s own experience as a clown with the Ringling Brothers Circus
cover art by James Meese
August 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 22 x 15 in.
better image than previously posted
John D. MacDonald, “His Fatal Fling”
Hank Searls, “Keep Your Money Side Up” (Shamus Blair)
Jonathan Craig, “One Sweet Frame”
Mel Colton, “Corpse-Gathering Cutie” (Johnny Rock)
John Granger, “The Busy Body” (Gumshoe Rory)
H. Hassell Gross, “Death Was the Bride”
Frederick C. Davis, “Kill Me, Kate!”
SMB Noir 