March 15, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Newton Howitt

March 15, 1934 issue

cover art by John Newton Howitt

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T.T. Flynn, “Red Alibi” (Bob Blair)

Eric Taylor, “The Barbary Horrors” (Det. Jess Arno)

Frederick C. Davis, “Murder in Bronze” (John Law, PI)

only issue on which the magazine title appeared in red instead of the usual yellow

December 1938 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

December 1938 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

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Carroll John Daly, “The Quick and the Dead” (Race Williams)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Ghoul Hangs High” (Keyhole Kerry)

D.L. Champion, “Lock the Death House Door!”

O.B. Myers, “Don’t Bet on Ghosts” (Doc Kincaid)

Mark Harper, “Frame for a Fall-Guy”

November 15, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Newton Howitt

November 15, 1934 issue

cover art by John Newton Howitt

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T.T. Flynn, “The Evil Brand” (Val Easton)

Eric Taylor, “Scarlet Wake” (Jim Kern)

Frederick Nebel, “Pardon My Murder” (Cardigan)

Max Brand, “The Unnumbered Door” (Dave Clovelly)

Cornell Woolrich, “Preview of Death” [revised into “Murder Before the Camera”] (Det. Galbraith)

Sam Powell, “Blood Storm”

April 1938 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

April 1938 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

better image than previously posted, cover credit corrected

T.T. Flynn, “The Nightingale Sings Death” (Bill Jennings)

Frederick C. Davis, “Maestro of Murder” (Keyhole Kerry)

John Lawrence, “Body About Town” (Marquis of Broadway)

O.B. Myers, “Second-Hand Coffin” (Chief Carmody)

Cyril Plunkett, “Half a Crime”

November 1938 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

November 1938 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

better image than previously posted

John Lawrence, “Death in Round Numbers” (Marquis of Broadway)

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

James Duncan, “A Mere Half Million”

William Edward Hayes, “The Corpse in the Darkroom”

Cyril Plunkett, “Lead Medicine”

August 1932 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

August 1932 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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Westmoreland Gray, “The Beast in Black (Colin Windsor)

Carroll John Daly, “Murder at Midnight” (Vee Brown)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Forged Kill” (Dick Bentley)

Frederick Nebel, “Rogues’ Ransom” (Cardigan)

Oscar Schisgall, “The Hooded Terror” (Kent Carmiody)

Photo and profile of Gardner appeared on pgs. 123-24

October 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

October 1948 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Lethal Lulu” (Cash Wale)

W. Lee Herrington, “Who’ll Carry My Coffin?”

John D. MacDonald, “My Husband Dies Slowly”

Roy Sparkia, “Satan’s Scapegoat”

Robert Canton, “No Bones About It” (P.I. Kent)

Stanley C. Vickers, “Pushover for Purgatory”

Bruce Cassiday, “Doubled in Danger”

January 15, 1934 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

January 15, 1934 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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Erle Stanley Gardner, “Time for Murder” (George Brokay)

John Lawrence, “The Scarlet Casket (Sam Beckett)

Leslie T. White, “The Zodiac Clue” (Bart Shane)

Jan Dana, “Panamint Oil”

George Alden Edson, “The Death Club” (Larry Sall)

April 1932 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

April 1932 issue ~ 6th issue

cover art by William Reusswig

J. Allan Dunn, “The Fire Fiend”

Carroll John Daly, “The Call to Kill” (Vee Brown)

Frederick Nebel, “Murder on the Loose” (Cardigan)

John Lawrence, “The Scarlet Comet” (Paul Bryant, PI)

Norman H. White, Jr., “Buoy of Doom” (Benton Ellwell)

profile and photo of Lawrence on pg. 122

profile and photo of White on pg. 123

March 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

March 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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T.T. Flynn, “Hayseed Homicide”

Dale Clark, “Tag! You’re Dead” (Plates O’Rion)

D.L. Champion, “Go Home and Die! (Insp. Allhoff)

Cornell Woolrich, “What the Well-Dressed Corpse Will Wear”

Julius Long, “Accidents Will Happen”