October 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1943 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Frederick C. Davis, “Clinic for Corpses” (Bill Brent)

Norbert Davis, “Charity Begins at Homicide” (Max Latin)

C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Beef to the Heels” (Colonel Kaspir)

H.S.M. Kemp, “Between 11:00 and 11:15”

G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “There’s One in Every Graveyard”

Richard Dermody, “Painless Operation”

September 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

September 1939 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

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T.T. Flynn, “Saratoga Slay-Ride” (Mr. Maddox)

Frederick C. Davis, “Poison on Her Lips” (Keyhole Kerry)

Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Talking Eyes”

Jan Dana, “Storm Signal” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Denslow M. Dade, “Judgment Seat”

October 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Frederick C. Davis, “Thirteen Shrouds” (Thackeray Hackett)

G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Feather in Your Coffin” (Jeffrey Wren)

Ted Stratton, “Hickory, Dickory Death” (Tom Morgan)

Ed Schmid, “A Likely Story”

John D. MacDonald, “Female of the Species”

February 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

February 1939 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

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John K. Butler, “County Cleanup” (Tricky Enright)

Warren E. Barrett, “The Mad Mayor” (Blue Barrel)

Leslie T. White, “Dangerous But Passable!”

Erle Pierce, Jr., “Mum’s the Word for Murder”

Jan Dana, “Single Indemnity” (Acme Insurance Op)

October 1, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Newton Howitt

October 1, 1934 issue

cover art by John Newton Howitt

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Carroll John Daly, “Ticket to Murder” (Clay Holt)

George Harmon Coxe, “The Flaming Shadow” (Det. Carson)

Max Brand, “Wet Money” (Dave Clovelly)

Oscar Schisgall, “Palooka Death Pawn”

Anson Hatch, “Dumb Double” (Det. Jack Farley)

Robert C. Blackmon, “The Body in the Loge”

Richard Hoadley Tingley, “Crossroads of Crime #1”

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)

May 1936 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

May 1936 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Leslie T. White, “Eyewitness” (Tod Naughton, arson dick)

Donald G. Cooley, “Brood of the Green Bowman”

John Lawrence, “Murder by Magic” (Drago of Headquarters Squad)

John K. Butler, “Blood on the Buddha” (Rex Lonergan)

October 1945 issue ~ cover art by Samuel Cherry

October 1945 issue

cover art by Samuel Cherry

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Dale Clark, “Corpse in Pawn” (High Price)

C. William Harrison, “Down Among the Dead Men” (Hannibal Smith)

H.H. Stinson, “Crime on My Hands” (Johnny Smith)

Robert C. Dennis, “Lilies are for the Dead” (Pat Kinnick)

Richard C. Dermody, “The Doctor’s Gander” (Dot Pierce)

William R. Cox, “Slay-Belle” (Malachi Manatee)

Muriel Farr, “Protection for Life”

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

July 1932 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

July 1932 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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J. Paul Suter, “The Angel of the Damned” (Horatio Humberton)

T.T. Flynn, “Dead Man’s Lottery” (Danny Eagen)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Crippled Corpse” (Dick Bentley)

James A. Goldthwaite, “Murder in B Minor” (Jerry Conover)

Maxwell Hawkins, “Pipe Line of Peril (Sleepy O’Neill)