cover art by William Reusswig
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Westmoreland Gray, “The Beast in Black (Colin Windsor)
Carroll John Daly, “Murder at Midnight” (Vee Brown)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Forged Kill” (Dick Bentley)
Frederick Nebel, “Rogues’ Ransom” (Cardigan)
Oscar Schisgall, “The Hooded Terror” (Kent Carmiody)
Photo and profile of Gardner appeared on pgs. 123-24
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Lethal Lulu” (Cash Wale)
W. Lee Herrington, “Who’ll Carry My Coffin?”
John D. MacDonald, “My Husband Dies Slowly”
Roy Sparkia, “Satan’s Scapegoat”
Robert Canton, “No Bones About It” (P.I. Kent)
Stanley C. Vickers, “Pushover for Purgatory”
Bruce Cassiday, “Doubled in Danger”
cover art by William Reusswig
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Erle Stanley Gardner, “Time for Murder” (George Brokay)
John Lawrence, “The Scarlet Casket (Sam Beckett)
Leslie T. White, “The Zodiac Clue” (Bart Shane)
Jan Dana, “Panamint Oil”
George Alden Edson, “The Death Club” (Larry Sall)
April 1932 issue ~ 6th issue
cover art by William Reusswig
J. Allan Dunn, “The Fire Fiend”
Carroll John Daly, “The Call to Kill” (Vee Brown)
Frederick Nebel, “Murder on the Loose” (Cardigan)
John Lawrence, “The Scarlet Comet” (Paul Bryant, PI)
Norman H. White, Jr., “Buoy of Doom” (Benton Ellwell)
profile and photo of Lawrence on pg. 122
profile and photo of White on pg. 123
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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T.T. Flynn, “Hayseed Homicide”
Dale Clark, “Tag! You’re Dead” (Plates O’Rion)
D.L. Champion, “Go Home and Die! (Insp. Allhoff)
Cornell Woolrich, “What the Well-Dressed Corpse Will Wear”
Julius Long, “Accidents Will Happen”
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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Carroll John Daly, “The White-Headed Corpse” (Race Williams)
Michael Sutton, “The Devil’s Portrait”
Jan Dana, “Too Week to Kill” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Dale Clark, “The Short and Merry One”
Roger Torrey, “Fire Test”
Maurice Beam, “Mind Over Matter”
Robert K. Adams, “Curtain Call”
D.L. Champion, “Dumb Dick”
cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 20.5 x 14.75 in.
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Craig Rice & Mark Hope, “Case of the Vanishing Blonde” (Ed Bradbury)
Tiah Devitt, “The Merry Wives of Murder” (reprint from 1942)
Larry Holden, “Lady-Killer”
Richard Goggin, “For Old Crime’s Sake”
V.E. Thiessen, “Lady in Hades”
John Bender, “Tying Room Only”
Andrew Holt, “Death on a Platter”
Rufus Bakalor, “Love, Honor and Slay”
cover art by Albert Drake
Frederick C. Davis, “Man About Murder”
T.T. Flynn, “I’ll Bet Your Life!” (Mr. Maddox)
Robert Martin, “Doctor of Doom”
Richard Dermody, “Cupid for Cash” (Doc Pierce)
Dean Evans, “Dreams Get Blasted, Too”
Russell Branch, “A Corpse Had Cold Feet”
[updated 5/12/25]
cover art by William Reusswig
T.T. Flynn, “Torture Tavern” (Val Easton vs. Black Doctor)
Ralph Oppenheim, “The Death Lady” (Glen Kelsey, PI)
Frederick Nebel, “Scrambled Murder” (Cardigan)
Edward Parrish Ware, “The Gallows Cure”
cover art by Malvin Singer
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John K. Butler, “The Secret of the Wax Lady” (Tricky Enright)
Edward S. Williams, “Money in the Trees” (Paul Dana)
J.A.L. Chambliss, “A Corpse in the Rough” (Sid Harrison)
William Edward Hayes, “The Strip-Tease Murders” (Pete Niles)
Thorp McClusky, “Phantom Fingerprint”
O.B. Myers, “Death Takes the Winner”
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