December 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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cover art by Walter Baumhofer

“The Curse of Cardigan” (PI Cardigan), Frederick Nebel

“Rapped in Cellophane” (Mark Hall), J. Allan Dunn

“Murder on the Mississippi” (Rambler Murphy), Fred MacIsaac

“The House of Sudden Sleep” (Leon Pell), Hugh B. Cave

“Dead on her Feet” (Det. Smith), Cornell Woolrich

“Blood Orchids” (Dade), O.B. Myers

April 1936 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

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cover art by Malvin Singer

Carroll John Daly, “Just Another Stiff” (Race Williams)

Fred MacIsaac, “Cat’s-Paw for Murder” (Rambler Murphy)

Frederick Nebel, “Lead Poison” (Cardigan)

Cornell Woolrich, “The Living Lie Down with the Dead”

Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Flying Diamond”

May 30, 1936 issue

first appearance of Raymond Chandler’s “Noon Street Nemesis”, which would later be reissued as “Pick-Up on Noon Street” for The Simple Art of Murder

surreal cover illustration by Artzybasheff

May 1938 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

May 1938 issue

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cover art by John Fleming Gould

Fred MacIsaac, “Nobody’s Stooge” (Rambler Murphy)

William E. Barrett, “The Devil’s Dice” (Blue Barrel)

John K. Butler, “Why Shoot a Corpse?” (Tricky Enright)

O.B. Myers, “The Golden Gag”

Cornell Woolrich, “Short-Order Kill”

Robert Sidney Bowen, “Five Seconds to Murder”

Lawrence Treat, “The Ghoul with the Green Eyes”