cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “Yes, Sir, That’s My Slay-Babe!”
Albert Simmons, “She’ll Fool You Every Crime”
Robert Turner, “Dizzy Doll Blues”
Day Keene, “Claw into Your Coffin”
Richard Glendinning, “Two-Time Loser”
Ted Stratton, “The Graveyard is the Goal”
Zale Herrington, “Hussies Prefer Homicide”
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Bert Sims, “Beautiful, Blue and Deadly”
Larry Holden, “Murder and the Mermaid” (Gil Gilchrist)
Mel Colton, “Something to Shoot About” (PI Steve Stone)
Dane Gregory, “Self-Out!” [reprinted from 1942, originally titled “Remember the Blood and Tears”]
Carroll John Daly, “Death Rehearsal” (Willie Bloto)
Dick Goggin, “Danny, Get Your Gun!”
Fletcher Flora, “Ghoul to Go!”
Julius Long, “Mr. Mouthpiece” (Barry Bodine)
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Merle Constiner, “The Affair of the Pharmacist’s Fudge” (The Dean)
Dale Clark, “Sing fro Your Shroud” (Plates O’Rion & Sal)
Francis K. Allan, “Death in Fool’s Disguise”
C.P. Donnel, Jr., The Flyin’ Icebox” (Colonel Kapir)
Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Treatment” (Doc Pierce)
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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D.L. Champion, “The Day Nobody Died” (Inspector Allhoff)
Lawrence Treat, “Death’s Old Sweet Song” (Edward Asa Scott)
Julius Long, “The Corpse Belongs to Daddy”
Alan Farley, “Man’s Best Friend is His Murder”
Clyde Morehead, “The Remembering Skull”
Berna Morris, “Winter Violets”
stories mentioned on the cover are from the April 1942 US edition
no corresponding US cover art
cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “Trap for a Tigress!”
Richard Deming, “Here’s Blood in My Eye!”
Albert Simmons, “Strictly Guilt-Edged”
Talmage Powell, “The Beautiful Miss Borgia”
Philip Ketchum, “The Good Neighbors”
Larry Holden, “Sing a Song of Murder”
Harry Widmer, “The Key”
Dane Gregory, “My Night to Kill” (reprint from 1941)
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Hank Napheys, “Homicide Home-Coming”
Frederick C. Davis, “Name Your Poison” (reprinted from 1940)
William Campbell Gault, “None But the Lethal Heart” (Det. Calvano)
Charles Larson, “The Deadly Coincidence”
Paul Chadwick, “Mermaid in Distress”
Day Keene, “Polly Wants a Killer”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
“The Arm of Mother Manzoli” by Merle Constiner (with The Dean)
“The Big Four” by C.P. Donnel, Jr. (with Colonel Kaspir)
“Send Coffins for Seven” by Julius Long
“No Haunting Allowed” by G.T. Fleming-Roberts
[updated 5/14/25]
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