October 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1943 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Frederick C. Davis, “Clinic for Corpses” (Bill Brent)

Norbert Davis, “Charity Begins at Homicide” (Max Latin)

C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Beef to the Heels” (Colonel Kaspir)

H.S.M. Kemp, “Between 11:00 and 11:15”

G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “There’s One in Every Graveyard”

Richard Dermody, “Painless Operation”

September 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

September 1939 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

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T.T. Flynn, “Saratoga Slay-Ride” (Mr. Maddox)

Frederick C. Davis, “Poison on Her Lips” (Keyhole Kerry)

Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Talking Eyes”

Jan Dana, “Storm Signal” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Denslow M. Dade, “Judgment Seat”

October 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Frederick C. Davis, “Thirteen Shrouds” (Thackeray Hackett)

G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Feather in Your Coffin” (Jeffrey Wren)

Ted Stratton, “Hickory, Dickory Death” (Tom Morgan)

Ed Schmid, “A Likely Story”

John D. MacDonald, “Female of the Species”

June 1936 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

June 1936 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Frederick Nebel, “Murder by Mail” (Cardigan)

Hugh B. Cave, “The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” (Martin Lane)

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Circle” (Needle Mike)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Queen’s Headsman” (Carter Cole)

Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Corpse in Seat 2” (Kip Lacey)

“Murder by Mail” was reprinted in Hard-Boiled Dames (St. Martin’s, 1986) and The Complete Cases of Cardigan (Altus Press, 2011)

“The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action (Carroll & Graff, 2001)

January 1943 issue

January 1943 issue

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Day Keene, “Rhapsody in Blood”

Francis K. Allan, “The Dead Are Not Beautiful”

Frederick C. Davis, “Corpses in the Rain”

Fredric Brown, “A Lock of Satan’s Hair”

Robert Turner, “Music for the Murder Maestro”