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”

November 1944 issue

November 1944 issue (combined with 10 Story Mystery)

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W. Ryerson Johnson, “Killers’ Kingdom”

William R. Cox, “Hell Comes in Bottles!” (Tom Kincaid)

Ray Bradbury, “It Burns Me Up!“

Francis K. Allan, “Sing a Song of Murder”

Frederick C. Davis, “Doctor Diggory’s Glass Grave”

Wayne Rogers, “School for Corpses”

Ken Lewis, “Die, and You’ll Wear Diamonds!”

David X. Manners, “Lie Down, You’re Dead!“

Cyril Plunkett , “They Kill by Night!”

July 1944 issue ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll

July 1944 issue

cover art by Gloria Stoll

Day Keene, “Brother, Can You Spare a Grave?“

Frederick C. Davis, “The Little Green Door of Doom”

Stewart Toland, “His Beard Was Long and Very Black”

Curtiss T. Gardner, “In Bed We Die” (Val Vickers)

Duane Yarnell, “Claws for the Tiger Girl”

Francis K. Allan, “You’ll Never Know Who Killed You”

January 29, 2016

July 1936 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

July 1936 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Carroll John Daly, “Red Dynamite” (Vee Brown)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Corpse’s Bride” (Carter Cole, MD)

T.T. Flynn, “Murder Moon”

Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Other Bullet” (Kip Lacey)

William E. Barrett, “Death on the Double-O” (Blue Barrel)