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Back in 2013, our tumblr site was started and ran until 2018, when they decided it was too "adult" - too lurid, supposedly. We followed the exodus to newtumbl and four years of dedication vanished in June of 2023. That work was not only new posts but upgrades of hundreds of old tumblr posts as well. So far, there has been no way to rescue those posts, so this will be the third version of this project. And, I'll warn you in advance, I may slip in covers that are not crime or mystery but just because I like the artwork. Enjoy!

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December 1949 issue

December 1949

Posted on December 28, 2023December 17, 2023Categories magazine, true crimeTags dame, femme fatale, human detective magazine, poison, pulp art, true crimeLeave a comment on December 1949 issue

August-September 1939 issue

August-September 1939

included Cornell Woolrich’s “Vampire’s Honeymoon”

Posted on December 28, 2023December 17, 2023Categories Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulp, weird fictionTags coffin, cornell woolrich, femme fatale, frances bragg middleton, horror stories magazine, mindret lord, ray cummings, skeleton, vampire, whipLeave a comment on August-September 1939 issue

October 1959 issue

Format ImagePosted on December 28, 2023December 23, 2023Categories Hardboiled, magazine, true crimeTags femme fatale, official detective stories, pulp illustration, woman with a gunLeave a comment on October 1959 issue

June 1936 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward

June 1936

cover art by H.J. Ward

[cover updated 11/18/25]

Posted on December 28, 2023November 18, 2025Categories action fiction, adventure, finest kind, Hardboiled, magazine, pulp, spicy, updatedTags dagger, dame, desert fiction, femme fatale, finest kind, foreign legion, h.j. ward, justin case, lew merrill, spicy-adventure stories, tentLeave a comment on June 1936 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward

August 1929 issue ~ cover art by R.C. Wardell

August 1929

cover art by R.C. Wardell

better image than previously posted

Hersey swastika: “The Symbol of Good Reading – A Hersey Magazine”

Posted on December 28, 2023December 27, 2023Categories crime fiction, gangster, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags dame, femme fatale, r.c. wardell, rackateer, underworld magazineLeave a comment on August 1929 issue ~ cover art by R.C. Wardell

December 1954 issue

December 1954

Posted on December 26, 2023December 17, 2023Categories Hardboiled, magazine, true crimeTags dame, femme fatale, poison, pulp illustration, real detective magazine, true crimeLeave a comment on December 1954 issue

1965 Signet edition ~ cover art by Robert McGinnis

1965 Signet edition

cover art by Robert McGinnis

Posted on December 25, 2023December 1, 2023Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, paperback, pulpTags al wheeler, carter brown, christmas crime, dame, femme fatale, police procedural, pulp art, robert mcginnis, signet paperbackLeave a comment on 1965 Signet edition ~ cover art by Robert McGinnis

Holiday Heist

1990 St. Martins hardcover, 1st print

1990 St. Martin’s mass market reissue

An ex-cop, burned out in a dead-end job, is enticed by an alluring co-worker into a plan to rob the chain of stores for which they work on Christmas Eve. Great dark comic noir.

Posted on December 24, 2023December 16, 2023Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, hardcover, paperbackTags christmas crime, dame, femme fatale, heist, michigan fiction, noir, tom kakonisLeave a comment on Holiday Heist

November 1936 issue

Format ImagePosted on December 23, 2023December 23, 2023Categories pulp, true crimeTags billy the kid, dame, femme fatale, g-man, real detective magazine, telephoneLeave a comment on November 1936 issue

1965 Horwitz

1965 Horwitz

certainly looks like Robert McGinnis artwork but can’t confirm it

Posted on December 23, 2023December 1, 2023Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, paperback, pulpTags al wheeler, australian pulp, carter brown, christmas crime, dame, femme fatale, horwitz paperback, private eyeLeave a comment on 1965 Horwitz

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