cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 22 x 15 in.
better image than previously posted
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 Allen Anderson (signature is on the crate)
notice where the crate is going…
better image than previously posted
May 1943 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Cornell Woolrich, “Mind over Murder”
W.T. Ballard, “A Heel of the First Water”
Dale Clark, “Death is from Taxes” (Plates O’Rion)
Duane Yarnell, “Murder is My Meat”
Frederick C. Davis, “Home Sweet Homicide” (Bill Brant)
Henry Norton, “Bait”
[updated 5/14/25]
November 1958 Crest paperback original, first printing
SMB Noir 