cover art by Samuel Cherry
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G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Medium Dead” (Jeffrey Wren )
T.T. Flynn, “Murder in the Saddle” (Mr. Maddox)
D.L. Champion, “A Toast to the Killer” (Mariano Mercado)
Fergus Truslow, “The Corpse in a Golden Shay”
Jean Prentice, “The Perfectionist
cover art by Tom Lovell
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Carroll John Daly, “Monogram in Lead” (Race Williams)
T.T. Flynn, “A Date at the Morgue”
John K. Butler, “The Walking Dead” (Rex Lonergan)
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Man Who Was Two” (Kip Lacey)
John Lawrence, “Broadway Malady” (Marquis of Broadway)
a letter from JKB appeared on pgs. 123-124
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Frank Huepper, “Hell Bent for Homicide”
Mel Colton, “Dreamer with a Gun” (Johnny Rock)
John D. MacDonald, “Take a Powder, Galahad!“
Richard E. Glendinning, “The Lady from Limbo”
John Bender, “Fall-Guy’s Feint”
Bert Styler, “Why Stoolies Get Stiff”
Mark Wilson, “Those Sticky, Sticky Fingers”
cover art by Albert Drake
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Andrew Holt, “Some Like ‘Em Cold!” (Shamus Reed)
Russell Bender, “Here’s Lead in Your Teeth”
Robert Martin, “Homicidal Honey” (Lee Fiske)
Michael O’Hillard, “Sinner’s Haven” (P.I. Thorne)
William P. McGivern, “One Lesson in Larceny”
Frederick C. Davis, “Don’t Talk, Chump!”
cover art by William Reusswig
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Frederick Nebel, “Murder & Co.” (Cardigan)
Frederick C. Davis, “Carrion Cargo” (Eliot Knox)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Snatch as Snatch Can” (Paul Pry)
Ralph Oppenheim, “Brand of the Beast” (Glen Kelsey, PI)
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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T.T. Flynn, “Weather Fair – – Track Bloody (Mr. Maddox)
D.L. Champion, “Aaron Had a Rod” (Inspector Allhoff)
H.H. Stinson, “Keep ‘Em Dying”
Day Keene, “A Great Whirring of Wings”
Julius Long, “The Dead Don’t Tell”
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Robert Martin, “Death Under Glass” (Lee Fisk)
Hank Searls, “For Tomorrow We Die”
Talmage Powell, “Nobody’s Darling”
Frederick C. Davis, “Furlough for Murder” (reprint from 1943)
Larry Holden, “Prelude for Wake”
Don James, “G-String Kill”
John Bender, “In Jail By Christmas” (published in 1941 as “Prelude to an Operation”)
Ray Darby, “According to Plan”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Frederick C. Davis, “Open the Morgue, Richard!” (Thackeray Hackett)
Thorne Lee, “A Corpse Slept Here”
James Howard Leveque, “A Share in the Slaughter”
Mark Mallory, “Killer Take All”
Don James, “I’ll Never Slay Again”
Charles Larson, “Brat’s Brew o’Murder”
Robert Turner, “Crime Doesn’t Play”
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Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Carnival Kill” (Cash Wale)
Theodore Sturgeon, “Die, Maestro, Die!”
Carroll John Daly, “Half a Corpse” (Race Williams)
Larry J. Marcus, “Dead Man Blues”
R.M.F. Joses, “Bad to the Last Drop”
Robert Carlton, “Sealed with a Kiss” (Mike Brent)
John D. MacDonald, “You’ll Never Escape”
later UK edition, includes five pieces from US May 1949 edition
Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Carnival Kill”
Theodore Sturgeon, “Die Maestro, Die!”
Larry J. Marcus, “Dead Man Blues”
R.M.F. Joses, “Bad to the Last Drop”
Ted Palmer, “The June Thrill Docket”
stories by Daly, Carlton and MacDonald omitted
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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T.T. Flynn, “Mr. Maddox’s Murder Parlay” (Mr. Maddox)
Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Slaughter in a Sarong” (Shamus Larkin)
John D. MacDonald, “I’ll Drown You in My Dreams”
Robert Martin, “Just a Corpse at Twilight”
Shane Darcy, “Dames Like Killing Too”
Harry Mason, “Death for Dessert”
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