cover art attributed to Rafael DeSoto
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Robert Martin, “Death Under Par”
Thorne Lee, “Married to Murder”
D.L. Champion, “Suitable for Framing” (Mariano Mercado)
Ken Greene, “A Red-Headed Clue”
Larry Holden, “A Corpse to his Credit”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “Grim Reaper’s Model”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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T.T. Flynn, “Trot Out Your Murder” (Mr. Maddox)
Peter Paige, “The Bullet From Nowhere” (Cash Wale)
D.L. Champion, “Coffee for a Killer” (Insp. Allhoff)
Jan Dana, “Cheese it – The Corpse” (Acme Indemnity Op)
John Earl Davis, “Try This on Your Knife”
cover art by Samuel Cherry
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Peter Paige, “Twelve Dead Mice” (Cash Wale)
H.H. Stinson, “Start with Murder (Sam Fisk)
Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Trove” (Doc Pierce)
William R. Cox, “Vacation – With Slay” (Malachi Manatee)
Robert C. Dennis, “They’re Coming Through the Door!” (Hank O’Neill)
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Frederick C. Davis, “Sinner Take All”
John D. MacDonald, “Murder Run-Around”
Robert Martin, “Deadliest Dame in Town” (Jim Bennett)
Paul W. Fairman, “Spotlight on Slaughter”
E.A. Morris, “I’ll Laugh at Your Funeral”
Larry J. Marcus, “The Spider’s Web”
Harvey Weinstein, “Rendezvous with Blood”
Scott O’Hara, “Mad About Murder” (pen name of John D. MacDonald)
cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 22 x 15 in.
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Albert Simmons, “Dead Air”
Day Keene, “He Who Dies Last, Dies Hardest” (reprint from 1943)
Raymond Drennen, Jr., “Pennies From Hell”
Rufus Bakalor, “A Hitch in Crime”
Don James, “Babe and the Hoods”
Duane Yarnell, “Death on the Menu” (Patrolman Kelly)
[I wonder which was reversed – the image of the painting or the image for the cover…]
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”
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