June 1, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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cover art by Walter Baumhofer

Frederick Nebel, “A Couple of Quick Ones” (Cardigan)

Preston Grady, “Dead Man’s Chest” (Ross Paget)

John K. Butler, “The Corpse Parade” (Rex Lonergran)

John Lawrence, “Dangerous Dollars” (Cass Blue)

Richard Howells Watkins, “Hell’s Half Mile”

December 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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cover art by Walter Baumhofer

“The Curse of Cardigan” (PI Cardigan), Frederick Nebel

“Rapped in Cellophane” (Mark Hall), J. Allan Dunn

“Murder on the Mississippi” (Rambler Murphy), Fred MacIsaac

“The House of Sudden Sleep” (Leon Pell), Hugh B. Cave

“Dead on her Feet” (Det. Smith), Cornell Woolrich

“Blood Orchids” (Dade), O.B. Myers

August 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

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cover art by Norman Saunders

Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams’ Double Date”

Paula Elliot, “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”

January 15, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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)

March 1942 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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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)

April 1936 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

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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 ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

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”