cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Robert Martin, “Death Gives a Permanent Wave” (PI Jim Bennett)
D.L. Champion, “Slaying Room Only!”
John D. MacDonald, “Oh, Give Me a Hearse”
Charles Larson, “Covet and Kill”
Richard E. Glendinning, “Invitation to Hell”
Paula Elliot, “Murder is Too Personal“
Frank Ward, “Nightmare Alley”
[perhaps my favorite cover but do not know the artist – at this point]
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Frederick C. Davis, “Let the Skeletons Rattle” (Bill Brent)
Sam Merwin Jr., “Caviar for the Killer” (Sgt. Lanning)
Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Maladroit Manicurist”
D.L. Champion, “Curtain Call”
O.B. Myers, “Bonds to Burn”
June-July 1949 issue
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Carroll John Daly, “Gangman ’s Gallows” (Race Williams)
Raymond Chandler, “Trouble is My Business ” (John Dalmas)
Edward Ronns, “Three Doors to Doom”
O.B. Myers, “Fire and Ice”
Hugh B. Cave, “Deal from the Bottom”
D.L. Champion, “Laughter in Hell”
cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “ The Girl Who Wanted Money”
Hank Napheys, “Slayer, Come Back to Me” (reprint from 1946)
Larry Holden, “The High Cost of Chivalry”
Stewart Sterling, “Dying Room Only” (reprint from 1943)
Philip Weck, “Forgotten Killer”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Incident at Opunohu”
Philip Ketchum, “The Cop with All the Luck”
Rufus Bakalor, “Hundred Grand Feature”
Robert M. Hodges, “Wellspring of Murder”
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Mel Cotton, “Kill and Make Up” (Det. Winters)
Talmage Powell, “There Was a Crooked Man”
Cornell Woolrich, “The Fatal Footlights” (reprinted from 1941)
Walter Snow, “Exclusive Sucker”
W.P. Brothers, “Mourner’s Bench”
Harvey Weinstein, “Spoiler for a Wise Guy”
Robert Martin, “Murder on the Make”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Merle Constiner, “Parade of Empty Shoes” (The Dean)
Norbert Davis, “Take It From Me” (Bail-Bond Dodd)
Day Keene, “The Female is More Deadly” (P.I. Case)
Tom Marvin, “The Ghost Wore His Hat” (Shag Kyper)
D.L. Champion, “Imperfect Alibi”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Dale Clark, “Stay, Fido, Stay” (Highland Park “High” Price)
Lawrence Treat, “Death on the Palette”
G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Dig a Grave for Me”
Alan Farley, “A Mouse in the Hand”
Julius Long, “C.D. for Corpus Delicti” (Clarence Darrow Mort)
Henry Norton, “No Tears for the Lady”
[updated 11/15/25]
cover art by Samuel Cherry
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Peter Paige, “A Little Corpse Who Wasn’t There”
John Whiting, “Death Sends Orchids”
H.H. Stinson, “Rancho el Maniac”
D.L. Champion, “A Hound for Murder” (Mariano Mercado)
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Day Keene, “Mighty Like a Rogue”
R.M.F. Joses, “Fill Your Own Shroud” (Skip Tracer Carter)
John D. MacDonald, “Swing and Slay”
Richard E. Glendinning, “Please Omit Flowers”
Ric Hasse, “Not By Blood Alone”
Robert Turner, “One Sunday Mourning”
cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 22 x 15 in.
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John D. MacDonald, “His Fatal Fling”
Hank Searls, “Keep Your Money Side Up” (Shamus Blair)
Jonathan Craig, “One Sweet Frame”
Mel Colton, “Corpse-Gathering Cutie” (Johnny Rock)
John Granger, “The Busy Body” (Gumshoe Rory)
H. Hassell Gross, “Death Was the Bride”
Frederick C. Davis, “Kill Me, Kate!”
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