
cover art by John A. Coughlin
better image than previously posted

better image than previously posted
cover by Rudolph Belarski
Fred R. Miller, “Dead Man’s Blues”
Hugh B. Cave, “But Few Are Chosen”
Walter Ripperger , “Are You Planning to Die?” (Part 3 of 6; C.O. Ponder)
Joseph Fulling Fishman, “New Year Murder Riddle”
J. Lane Linklater, “Knife Thrust”, Gang World, September 1931
Stookie Allen – Copper!: Scientific Sherlock
Robert Leslie Bellem, “Night Beat”
Philip Ketchum, “Getaway Car”
M.E. Ohaver, “Solving Cipher Secrets”

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

1950 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, first edition
surreal cover illustration by Artzybasheff