August 1948 issue
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cover art by Norman Saunders
Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams’ Double Date”
Paula Elliott, “Salt on a Siren’s Trail” (Boden)
John D. MacDonald, “Cavaliers Make Good Corpse”
Don James, “Quick Buck – Quick Kill”
Roderick Lull, “Gentleman’s Vengeance”
Ted Stratton, “Butterfly’s Bier”
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cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Erle Stanley Gardner, “Hard as Nails” (Gilbert E. Best)
Norbert Davis, “The Gin Monkey” (Max Clark)
Donald Barr Chidsey, “The Corpse Clue” (Morton & McGarvey)
Frederick C. Davis, “Tracks of the Turtles” (Oke Oakley)
Oscar Schisgall, “Murder as the Crow Flies” (Phil Drury)
Michael Kennedy, “Bodyguard” (Det. Cassidy)
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cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Robert Reeves, “Over a Barrel” (Bookie Barnes)
John K. Butler, “The Corpse That Couldn’t Keep Cool” (Steve Midnight)
Norbert Davis, “Have One on the House ” (Bail Bond Dodd)
C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Pressure Island” (Colonel Kaspir)
Jan Dana, “Corpse of a Different Killer” (Acme Indemnity Op)
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cover art by Malvin Singer
Carroll John Daly, “Just Another Stiff” (Race Williams)
Fred MacIsaac, “Cat’s-Paw for Murder” (Rambler Murphy)
Frederick Nebel, “Lead Poison” (Cardigan)
Cornell Woolrich, “The Living Lie Down with the Dead”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Flying Diamond”
May 1938 issue
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cover art by John Fleming Gould
Fred MacIsaac, “Nobody’s Stooge” (Rambler Murphy)
William E. Barrett, “The Devil’s Dice” (Blue Barrel)
John K. Butler, “Why Shoot a Corpse?” (Tricky Enright)
O.B. Myers, “The Golden Gag”
Cornell Woolrich, “Short-Order Kill”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Five Seconds to Murder”
Lawrence Treat, “The Ghoul with the Green Eyes”
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