April 15, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

April 15, 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Frederick Nebel, “Hell Couldn’t Stop Him” (Cardigan)

Leslie T. White, “Crook for a Night” (Toby Laird)

William Edward Hayes, “The Corpse on the Semaphore” (Dan Howell)

T. T. Flynn, “The Dragons of Change Ch’ien” (Val Easton)

O.B. Myers, “Grave Mates” (Jimmy McRay)

August 1936 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

August 1936 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Chinamen” (Needle Mike)

Leslie T. White, “The Bullet That Took Its Time” (Duke Martindel)

John K. Butler, “Parole for the Dead” (Tricky Enright)

Fred MacIsaac, “Blond Cargo” (Rambler Murphy)

Denslow M. Dade, “The Came On”

June 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

June 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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John Lawrence, “Murder Must Go On!” (Marquis of Broadway)

Carl Clausen, “The Bell of Blackman’s Knob”

Cornell Woolrich, “Meet Me by the Mannequin”

D.L. Champion, “Turn in Your Badge!” (Insp. Allhoff)

Wyatt Blassingame, “The Coral Band”

August 1, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

August 1, 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

T.T. Flynn, “The Monster of Hangman’s Key (Bill Clark)

Oscar Schisgall, “Murder Upstairs” (Don Cheever)

John Lawrence, “Design for Dying” (Sam Beckett)

Leslie T. White, “The Silver Shadow” (Jud Lunn)

a profile and picture of Leslie T. White appear on pages 123-124

December 1, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

December 1, 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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Carroll John Daly, “Blood on the Curtain” (Marty Day & Reckoner)

Allan Vaughan Elston, “Winking Death” (Arthur Baird & Patrick Shone)

T.T. Flynn, “Red Dollars” (Jerry Prince)

Oscar Schisgall, “Wrapped for Murder” (Dan Taggert, PI)

November 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

November 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Carroll John Daly, “Dead Hands Reaching” (Race Williams)

John K. Butler, “The Stairway to Hell” (Rex Lonergan)

Oscar Schisgall, “Island of Fear”

Norbert Davis, “The Devil’s Scalpel” (Bill Ray)

Wyatt Blassingame, “3+1 = Murder”

March 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

March 1948 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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John D. MacDonald, “With Soul So Dead”

Frederick C. Davis, “Nine Toes Up!”

Frank Huepper, “Plight of the Pallbearer’s Honey” (Merrick)

H.Q. Masur, “Meet Me at the Morgue”

John N. Polito, “Better Off Buries”

Charles Ingerman, “The Photogenic Corpse”

Frank Nash, “Murder Static”

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

August 1, 1934 issue

cover art by John Newton Howitt

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T.T. Flynn, “Easy to Kill” (Izzy O’Shea)

John Lawrence, “Call All Cars!” (Cass Blue)

Hugh B. Cave, “The Late Mr. Smythe” (Peter Kane)

Maxwell Hawkins, “Fair and Murder” (Jones & Jones)

Allan Vaughan Elston, “Star Witness”

Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Man’s Dinner” (Det. Colohan)

D.E. Winstead, “Heel Prints” (PI Tyson of Townsend Agency)

this is the first issue with 144 pages

May 1942 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1942 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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John Lawrence, “Murder in the Family” (Marquis of Broadway)

Norbert Davis, “Give the Devil His Due” (Max Latin)

C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Footprints on the Ceiling” (Colonel Kaspir)

D.L. Champion, “Tell It to Homicide” (Inspector Allhoff)

Alan Anderson, “Prowl the Night”

September 1936 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

September 1936 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

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John Lawrence, “The Corpse That Didn’t Die” (Drago of HQ Dept)

Leslie T. White, “Ashes of the Living” (Ted Naughton, arson dick)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Vanishing Venus” (Carter Cold, MD)

Robert Sidney Bowen, “Into Thin Air” (Kip Lacey)

William E. Barrett, “A Man’s Last Hours” (Blue Barrel)