December 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

December 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Frederick C. Davis, “Death Wears Red Heels” (Bill Brent)

T.T. Flynn, “Calamity Lou” (Mr. Maddox)

D.L. Champion, “The Vanishing American” (Mariano Mercado)

Fergus Truslow, “Knit One – Kill Two”

Julius Long, “Nobody Cried”

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January 1936 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

January 1936 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Carroll John Daly, “The Mark of the Raven” (Vee Brown)

Frederick Nebel, “Blood in the Dark” (Cardigan)

John K. Butler, “Seven Years Dead” (Tricky Enright)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Crazy Witness” (Carter Cole, MD)

Leo Stalnaker, “Black Widow’s Night”

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August 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

August 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

Frederick Nebel, “The Dead Die Twice” (Cardigan)

James P. Olsen, “Island of Skulls”

Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Crimson Claws” (Carter Cole, MD)

Charles Alexander, “The Half-Corpse Horrors”

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Cobra” (Needle Mark)

[Nebel story mis-titled on cover – correct is “Die”, not “Died”]

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June 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

June 1944

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Day Keene, “Sweet Tooth of Murder”

Frederick C. Davis, “Boomerang Scoop” (Bill Brent)

D.L. Champion, “Shake Well Before Dying” (Insp. Allhoff)

Nelson A. Hutton, “Killer’s Dead End”

Georges Carousso, “The Potter’s Hand” 

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