cover art by John Newton Howitt
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November 1932 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig
cover art by William Reusswig
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Carroll John Daly, “The Red Death” (Vee Brown)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Crook’s Carnival” (Dane Skarle)
Frederick Nebel, “The Candy Killer” (Cardigan)
John Lawrence, “The Bloodstone” (Cass Blue)
Howard E. Moran, “The Man in the Vault”
photo and profile of Carroll John Daly on pg., 123
February 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Carroll John Daly, “Cash for a Killer” (Race Williams)
Jan Dana, “One Vote for Murder” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Roger Torrey, “Lock, Stock and Barrel”
Norbert Davis, “Murder Down Deep” (William ‘Bail-Bond’ Dodd)
Leslie T. White, “Rough on Rats”
Riley Williams, “The Corpse with the Missing Finger”
January 1940 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould
January 1940 issue
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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T.T. Flynn, “Blood on the Book” (Mr. Maddox)
John Lawrence, “Death in the Side Pocket” (Broadway Squad)
Fred MacIsaac, “Object – Murder” (Rambler Murphy)
Philip Ketchem, “Hit-and-Run”
Hugh B. Cave, “Farewell With Trumpets” (Attendance Officer Coffey)
June 1938 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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Raymond Chandler, “Bay City Blues” (John Dalmas)
Frederick C. Davis, “Double Deadline” (Keyhole Kerry)
John Lawrence, “Witness! Witness!” (Marquis of Broadway)
Baynard Kendrick, “Murder in A-3”, (Cliff Chandler)
Milton Lowe, “Too Smart to Live”
[cover updated 8/11/26]
November 1, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig
cover art by William Reusswig
Carroll John Daly, “The Death Mask” (Vee Brown)
John Lawrence, “Murder in Miniature” (Sam Beckett)
Oscar Schisgall, “The Rattler Clue”
G.H. Coxe [George Harmon Coxe], “Slay Ride” (Det. Tom Flagg)
April 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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T.T. Flynn, “The Devil’s Derby” (Mr. Maddox)
Raymond Chandler, “Pearls are a Nuisance”
Fred MacIsaac, “Murder at the Beauty Show” (Rambler Murphy)
John Lawrence, “Old Wives’ Tale” (Marquis of Broadway)
Dale Clark, “Mercy Killing”
with a simple listing of his name on the cover, along with those of his colleagues, the editors could not have been aware that they were publishing one of Raymond Chandler’s masterpieces. The Big Sleep had been published just two months before, on February 6.
November 1936 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer
November 1936 issue
cover art by Malvin Singer
November 1936 issue
cover art by Malvin Singer
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Frederick Nebel, “Make Mine Murder” (Cardigan), reprinted in The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 4 (Altus Press, 2012)
Leslie T. White, “So You Won’t Talk, Eh?” (Duke Martindel)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Two Sticks of Death” (Small, Weston & Burke)
Fred MacIsaac, “The Corpse in the Taxicab” (Rainbow Murphy)
“The Tongueless Men”
– Chapter 1: John Lawrence, “The Blonde with the Purple Tongue”
– Chapter 2: T.T. Flynn, “The Vanishing Prelate”
– Chapter 3: Carroll John Daly, “The Broken Bank”
– Chapter 4: Frederick C. Davis, “The Lost Stairway”
– Chapter 5: Warren E. Barrett, “Only Two Swords”
[Taylor notes in his Companion: ” This is the fifth anniversary issue. To celebrate, a contest was built around a round-robin story, ‘The Tongueless Men’, where readers were supposed to identify which writer did each chapter.“]
November 1937 issue
cover art by Malvin Singer?
Leslie T. White, “Corpse Crazy” (Duke Martindel)
Raymond Chandler, “Mandarin’s Jade” (John Dalmas)
John K. Butler, “The Pied Piper of Frisco” (Rex Lonergan)
Hugh B. Cave, “Twenty After Murder” (Jitters Johnson)
Jan Dana, “Dead Failure”
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October 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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T.T. Flynn, “The Ghost Whistle” (Bill Wallace)
Frederick Nebel, “Death in the Raw” (Cardigan)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Chain” (Needle Mike)
Frederick C. Davis,“The Case of the Skinned Man” (Carter Cole, MD)
O.B. Myers, “The Corpse Master” (Det. Cutter)
