cover art by Albert Drake
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Thorne Lee, “The Hill to Die”
Hank Napheys, “The Bloodbank Killings” (reprint from 1943)
John Bender, “Room for Murder”
Alvin Yudkoff, “Stand-in for Death”
Robert Turner, “Slay Belles”
cover art by Rafael de Soto
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Peter Paige, “The Cash Wale Massacre” (Case Wale)
John Knox, “The Half-World — and Moonrake”
John Whiting, “Killers Prefer Blondes”
Robert Turner, “To Love, Honor – and Betray”
Ken Greene, “Crime on My Hands”
John D. MacDonald, “My Mission is Murder”
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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D.L. Champion, “Cover the Corpse’s Eyes” (Insp. Allhoff)
Cornell Woolrich, “Charlie Won’t Be Home Tonight”
Sam Merwin, Jr., “Murder for Syndication”
Jan Dana, “The Second Loop” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Leslie T. White, “Me and My Shadow” (Omar MacKenzie)
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cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Frederick C. Davis, “Blood from the Parrot” (Oke Oakley)
John Lawrence, “The Barking Body” (Cass Blue)
T.T. Flynn, “House of Dread” (Jerry Prince)
William Edward Hayes, “Murder in the Private Car” (Det. Dan Howell)
Edward S. Williams, “Call It Suicide” (Det. Haldane)
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
Frederick C. Davis, “The Green Ghoul” (Oke Oakley)
Donald Barr Chidsey, “The Scar Clue” (Morton & McGarvey)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Brand of Kane” (Peter Kane)
Fred MacIsaac, “Heir-Cooled” (Rambler Murphy)
Phillip Clark, “Three-Letter Kill”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Key to Murder” (Ted James)
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Frederick C. Davis, “Some Like ‘Em Dead”
Julius Long, “On the Homicide of the Street” (C.D. Mort)
Henry Norton, “Once Upon a Tomb” (Pinero Pershing)
William R. Cox, “Objective – Murder!” (Malachi Manatee)
Thorne Lee, “Death in the Groove”
cover art by William Reusswig
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Madeleine Sharps Buchanan, “The White Diver of Death”
Frederick Nebel, “Six Diamonds and a Dick” (Cardigan)
Oscar Schisgall, “Once a Crook” (Dave Loree)
Robert H. Rohde, “The Chamber of Doom”
Carroll John Daly, “The Crime Machine” (Vee Brown)
Norman H. White, Jr., “Hot Ice” (Jack Williams)
profile of Buchanan appeared on pgs 123-24
April 1946 issue
cover art by Samuel Cherry
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D.L. Champion, “No Place Like Homicide” (Mariano Mercado)
Julius Long, “The Needle and the Hood” (C.D. Mort)
John Knox, “Home is Where the Hearse Is”
Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Double” (Doc Pierce)
Roland Phillips, “Murder Rides a Broomstick”
A. Boyd Correll, “Lethal Legacy”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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D.L. Champion, “Death in the Sun” (Mariano Mercado)
C. William Harrison, “Killing is a Grave Business” (Hannibal Smith)
E. Hoffman Price, “Esprit De Corpse” (Lucky Nolan)
Stanley C. Vickers, “The Dolly Shaft Rebellion” (Jerry Slagle)
Julius Long, “Loaded for Murder” (C.D. Mort)
William R. Cox, “Shame on Malacci!” (Malachi Manatee)
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Norbert Davis, “Watch Me Kill You!” (Max Latin)
James A. Kirch, “The Murder Master”
John K. Butler, “Dead Man’s Alibi” (Steve Midnight)
Cleve F. Adams, “Forty Pains” (O’Melveny and Dugan)
O.B. Myers, “The Wild Man of Wall Street”
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