October 1949 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

October 1949 issue

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”

September 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

September 1944 issue

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”

July 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

July 1937 issue

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”

July 1948 issue ~ cover art by Albert Drake

July 1948 issue

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”

February 1938 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

February 1938 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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T.T. Flynn, “Dead Man’s Debt” (Mr Maddox)

Fred MacIsaac, “The Duchess of Diamonds” (Rambler Murphy)

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

Herbert Koehl, “Thirty Grand”

John Lawrence, “Boomerang Blastout” (Marquis of Broadway)

June 1953 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

June 1953 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Second Massacre!” (Cash Wale)

D.L. Champion, “Toast the Poison Princess” (A. Dasher)*

J.L. Bouma, “ – And Hope to Die!”

Charles Beckman, Jr., “How to Kill a Corpse”

Fletcher Flora, “ – Time to Kill – ”

Grover Brinkman, “Last Warning!”

Robert Sidney Bowen, “Dope in the Dark”

Dennis Wiegano, “Letter of the Law”

* “Toast the Poison Princess” reprinted from 1945

July 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

July 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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John D. MacDonald, “Dead Men Don’t Scare”

Talmage Powell, “Forget-Me-Not Killer”

Frederick C. Davis, “If the Noose Fits”

Robert Turner, “Murder in Her Wake”

Van MacNair, Jr., “White-Collar Stiff”

Russell Branch, “So Sorry – So Dead”

Scott O’Hara, “Five-Star Fugitive” (pen name of MacDonald’s)

May 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Frederick C. Davis, “A Stiff in Time Saves Nine” (Bill Brent)

T.T. Flynn, “The Sooner the Deader” (Mr. Maddox)

C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Who Owns Boriska?” (Colonel Kaspir)

Richard Dermody, “The Doctor Deals” (Doc Pierce)

October 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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John K. Butler, “Hacker’s Holiday” (Steve Midnight)

John Lawrence, “Gallows 9” (Marquis of Broadway)

D.L. Champion, “Suicide in Blue (Insp. Allhoff)

Roger Torrey, “Candidate for a Killing”

O.B. Myers, “Death Laughs at Locksmiths”

May 1939 issue

May 1939 issue

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Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Killer-Diller”

Jan Dana, “Movable Alibi” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Leslie T. White, “Whole Hog or Nothing” (Sergeant Mackey)

O.B. Myers, “Cash on the Line”

Herbert Koehl, “Too Many Lefts”

Jackson Gregory, Jr., “Black is White”