February 1952 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

February 1952 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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Robert Martin, “Death Under Glass” (Lee Fisk)

Hank Searls, “For Tomorrow We Die”

Talmage Powell, “Nobody’s Darling”

Frederick C. Davis, “Furlough for Murder” (reprint from 1943)

Larry Holden, “Prelude for Wake”

Don James, “G-String Kill”

John Bender, “In Jail By Christmas” (published in 1941 as “Prelude to an Operation”)

Ray Darby, “According to Plan”

December 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

December 1947 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Frederick C. Davis, “Open the Morgue, Richard!” (Thackeray Hackett)

Thorne Lee, “A Corpse Slept Here”

James Howard Leveque, “A Share in the Slaughter”

Mark Mallory, “Killer Take All”

Don James, “I’ll Never Slay Again”

Charles Larson, “Brat’s Brew o’Murder”

Robert Turner, “Crime Doesn’t Play”

May 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Frederick C. Davis, “A Stiff in Time Saves Nine” (Bill Brent)

T.T. Flynn, “The Sooner the Deader” (Mr. Maddox)

C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Who Owns Boriska?” (Colonel Kaspir)

Richard Dermody, “The Doctor Deals” (Doc Pierce)

October 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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John K. Butler, “Hacker’s Holiday” (Steve Midnight)

John Lawrence, “Gallows 9” (Marquis of Broadway)

D.L. Champion, “Suicide in Blue (Insp. Allhoff)

Roger Torrey, “Candidate for a Killing”

O.B. Myers, “Death Laughs at Locksmiths”

May 1939 issue

May 1939 issue

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Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Killer-Diller”

Jan Dana, “Movable Alibi” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Leslie T. White, “Whole Hog or Nothing” (Sergeant Mackey)

O.B. Myers, “Cash on the Line”

Herbert Koehl, “Too Many Lefts”

Jackson Gregory, Jr., “Black is White”