

[post updated 4/26/25]

cover art by Robert Stanley
first and only issue, all stories reissued from past fiction magazines

March-April 1938
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cover art by Rudolph Belarski
Cornell Woolrich, “Jane Brown’s Body”
H. Bedford-Jones, “Seven Stars”
Max Brand, “Nine Flights to Waterloo”
Robert Carse, “Without Horns”
Richard Howells Watkins, “Smooth Sailor”
Philip Ketchum, “Guns for Kansas”
Richard Sale,“Duello”
Frank Richardson Pierce, “Mosquito Country”
Stookie Allen: Dollars and Sense
Theodore Roscoe, “Dark Rebellion”

cover art by William Reusswig?
Cornell Woolrich’s “Those Who Kill” published, which he expanded into Phantom Lady
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[updated 6/27/25]

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cover art by Walter Baumhofer
“The Curse of Cardigan” (PI Cardigan), Frederick Nebel
“Rapped in Cellophane” (Mark Hall), J. Allan Dunn
“Murder on the Mississippi” (Rambler Murphy), Fred MacIsaac
“The House of Sudden Sleep” (Leon Pell), Hugh B. Cave
“Dead on her Feet” (Det. Smith), Cornell Woolrich
“Blood Orchids” (Dade), O.B. Myers

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cover art by Malvin Singer
Carroll John Daly, “Just Another Stiff” (Race Williams)
Fred MacIsaac, “Cat’s-Paw for Murder” (Rambler Murphy)
Frederick Nebel, “Lead Poison” (Cardigan)
Cornell Woolrich, “The Living Lie Down with the Dead”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Flying Diamond”