
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted

better image than previously posted
Francis K. Allan, “Murder Walks in My Sleep”
Ray Bradbury, “Wake for the Living”
Wyatt Blassingame, “Killer on the Keys” [reprinted from Detective Fiction Weekly, December 24, 1938]
Lix Agrabe, “The Hand”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “Terror-King of Bald Mountain”
Jimmy Nichols, “Captain Murder”
Charles W. Harbaugh, “Rise and Die!“
Joe Kent, “Coffin Count-Out”
[updated 2/4/26]

“Velma’s Predicament”, Detective Tales magazine cover, September 1944
oil on board, 14-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches



G.T. Fleming -Roberts, “Lady Killer!“
D.L. Champion, “Yuma Appointment”
Frances Beck, “The Last, Long Ride”
Cyril Plunkett, “Second Kill”
Henry Norton, “Cadaver Wanted—Dead or Alive!“
Frances M. Deegan, “Torch Song”
Robert C. Dennis, “Crabtree’s Favorite Corpse”
Francis K. Allan, “Stand-in for Death”
Day Keene, “Murder on My Mind”