
cover art by John A. Coughlin

January 1940 issue
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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T.T. Flynn, “Blood on the Book” (Mr. Maddox)
John Lawrence, “Death in the Side Pocket” (Broadway Squad)
Fred MacIsaac, “Object – Murder” (Rambler Murphy)
Philip Ketchem, “Hit-and-Run”
Hugh B. Cave, “Farewell With Trumpets” (Attendance Officer Coffey)

cover art by John Fleming Gould
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T.T. Flynn, “The Devil’s Derby” (Mr. Maddox)
Raymond Chandler, “Pearls are a Nuisance”
Fred MacIsaac, “Murder at the Beauty Show” (Rambler Murphy)
John Lawrence, “Old Wives’ Tale” (Marquis of Broadway)
Dale Clark, “Mercy Killing”
with a simple listing of his name on the cover, along with those of his colleagues, the editors could not have been aware that they were publishing one of Raymond Chandler’s masterpieces. The Big Sleep had been published just two months before, on February 6.

November 1936 issue
cover art by Malvin Singer
November 1936 issue
cover art by Malvin Singer
better image than previously posted
Frederick Nebel, “Make Mine Murder” (Cardigan), reprinted in The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 4 (Altus Press, 2012)
Leslie T. White, “So You Won’t Talk, Eh?” (Duke Martindel)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Two Sticks of Death” (Small, Weston & Burke)
Fred MacIsaac, “The Corpse in the Taxicab” (Rainbow Murphy)
“The Tongueless Men”
– Chapter 1: John Lawrence, “The Blonde with the Purple Tongue”
– Chapter 2: T.T. Flynn, “The Vanishing Prelate”
– Chapter 3: Carroll John Daly, “The Broken Bank”
– Chapter 4: Frederick C. Davis, “The Lost Stairway”
– Chapter 5: Warren E. Barrett, “Only Two Swords”
[Taylor notes in his Companion: ” This is the fifth anniversary issue. To celebrate, a contest was built around a round-robin story, ‘The Tongueless Men’, where readers were supposed to identify which writer did each chapter.“]