May 1, 1934 issue
cover art by John Howitt
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“Read ‘Em and Weep” (Cardigan) by Frederick Nebel
“The Smoking Corpse” (Edward Delane, lawyer) by Erle Stanley Gardner
“The Duchess of Death” (Jones & Jones) by Maxwell Hawkins
“Hot Money” (Johnny Cass) by R.D. Torrey
“Zero Hour” (Willy Hansen) by Anson Hatch
also includes letter from Carroll John Daly announcing new radio program featuring his character Vee Brown
November 1950
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Robert Martin, “Slayers Burn Slow” (Jim Bennett)
Donn Mullally, “A Bullet for Baby”
T.T. Flynn, “Build-Up for Murder”*
Rufus Bakalor, “Homicidal Hobby”
Raymond Drennan, Jr., “Killer’s Luck”
John D. MacDonald, “Tri-Kill Cutie”
*reprint from 1941
cover art by William Reusswig
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Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Dance of the Snakes” (Small, Weston & Burke)
Oscar Schisgall, “Fangs of the Wolf” (Doctor Dyme)
John Lawrence, “Portrait in Crimson” (Sam Beckett)
Robert Barbour Johnson, “The Cancer Devil”
Howard E. Morgan, “The Red Scarab” (Blaze Quent)
cover art by Norman Saunders
Robert Martin, “I’ll Be Killing You” (Jim Bennett)
Robert Turner, “Homicidal Hitchhiker”
E.A. Morris, “Fist for a Fighting Fool”
Russell Branch, “If the Frame Fits”
Don James, “Sing a Song of Slaughter” (PI Pete Johns)
Bert Sims,“No Time to Kill” (Hawkshaw Morgan)
Alvin Yudkoff, “You Gotta Die Right”
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Oscar Schisgall, “Gambling Man” (Danny Fenton)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Curse” (Needle Mike)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Dead Sees Red”
William Edward Hayes, “Hot Shot to Hell” (Dan Howell)
O.B. Myers, “The Corpse Watch (Tuttle and Tommy Merkle)
cover art by John Fleming Gould
“It’s the McCoy” (Paul Pine) by Erle Stanley Gardner
“The Fugitive Skeleton” (Keyhole Kerry) by Frederick C. Davis
“The Judas Touch” (Acme Indemnity Op) by Jan Dana
“The Lady in the Lake” (John Dalmas) by Raymond Chandler
“One for the Book” by Walter C. Brown
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cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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T.T. Flynn, “Happy Murder to You!” (Mr. Maddox)
Peter Paige, “Death is From Hunger” (Cash Wale)
Jan Dana, “All Those Men are Dead” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Dale Clark “The Killer and the Cop” (Detective Ed Owen)
Don James, “Lockout”
May 1943 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Cornell Woolrich, “Mind over Murder”
W.T. Ballard, “A Heel of the First Water”
Dale Clark, “Death is from Taxes” (Plates O’Rion)
Duane Yarnell, “Murder is My Meat”
Frederick C. Davis, “Home Sweet Homicide” (Bill Brant)
Henry Norton, “Bait”
[updated 5/14/25]
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cover art by William Reusswig
Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Hand of Horror” (Reed Sampsell)
Frederick Nebel, “Chains of Darkness” (Cardigan)
Frederick C. Davis, “Dead Men Walk” (Det. Lt. Bartholomew Brandt)
Richard J. Credicott, “The Ghoul of Murder Manor”
December 1931 – second issue
cover art by William Reusswig
T.T. Flynn, “The Revel of Death” (Jim Reilly)
J. Allan Dunn, “The Phantom of the Porthole” (Det. Sheldon)
Frederick Nebel, “Hell’s Pay Check” (Cardigan)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Make it Snappy” (Ed May)
Maxwell Hawkins, “The Corpse in Row 2″ (Det. Sgt. Tim Gregg)
photo and profile of Nebel appear on pg. 122
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