March 1949 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

March 1949 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “Mr. Maddox’s Murder Parlay” (Mr. Maddox)

Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Slaughter in a Sarong” (Shamus Larkin)

John D. MacDonald, “I’ll Drown You in My Dreams”

Robert Martin, “Just a Corpse at Twilight”

Shane Darcy, “Dames Like Killing Too”

Harry Mason, “Death for Dessert”

February 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

February 1948 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Brazen Ghost”

Frederick C. Davis, “Tall, Dark, and Deadly”

Robert Turner, “Murder on My Mitts”

John D. MacDonald, “High Walls of Hate”

Johanas L. Bouma, “Homicidal Harmony”

Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Murchison Got a Gun”

L.S. Goldsmith, “Black Spots of Doom”