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”
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams Cooks a Goose”
John D. MacDonald, “Target for Tonight”
William P. McGivern, “Hunt Her in Hell”
Raymond Drennan, Jr., “He Woke Up Dying”
Preston Grady, “Killing’s Too Easy”
Charles Larson, “My Crime – Your Punishment”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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D.L. Champion, “Mexican Slayride” (Mariano Mercado)
Dale Clark, “False Colors” (Plates O’Rion)
Merle Constiner, “The Affair of the Four Skeletons” (The Dean)
Mel Watt, “Killer Come Back to Me” (Sam Coad)
Bruno Fischer, “I’ll Slay You in My Dreams”
Ken Lewis, “Parlor, Bedroom and Death”
cover art by Malvin Singer
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John K. Butler, “A Coffin for Two” (Rex Lonergan)
Leslie T. White, “Don’t Change Dames in the Middle of Murder”
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Card” (Needle Mike)
O.B. Myers, “You Can’t Trust a Corpse”
Maxwell Hawkins, “Forty Pounds of Flesh”
Norbert Davis, “Death Sings a Torch-Song” (Dennis Lee)
B.B. Fowler, “Avenging Angel”
Madelyn Ralph, “The Ghost in the Bottle”
cover art by Albert Drake
Frederick C. Davis, “For Thee I Swing”
Robert Martin, “Dolls of Death”(featuring Jim Bennett)
Bryce Walton, “Whistle Stop Mayhem”
Hope Campbell, “A Shiv for Chivalry”
Dwight V. Swain, “Our Favorite Corpse”
John Polito, “Vacation from Violence”
Joseph W. Quinn, “Jackpot Jitters”
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