jewel theft – SMB Noir

April 1946 issue ~ cover art by Samuel Cherry

April 1946 issue

cover art by Samuel Cherry

better image than previously posted

D.L. Champion, “No Place Like Homicide” (Mariano Mercado)

Julius Long, “The Needle and the Hood” (C.D. Mort)

John Knox, “Home is Where the Hearse Is”

Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Double” (Doc Pierce)

Roland Phillips, “Murder Rides a Broomstick”

A. Boyd Correll, “Lethal Legacy”

cover art by Norman Saunders

1957 United Artists

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

[updated 12/31/25]

[perhaps my favorite cover but do not know the artist – at this point]

better image than previously posted

Frederick C. Davis, “Let the Skeletons Rattle” (Bill Brent)

Sam Merwin Jr., “Caviar for the Killer” (Sgt. Lanning)

Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Maladroit Manicurist”

D.L. Champion, “Curtain Call”

O.B. Myers, “Bonds to Burn”

June-July 1949 issue

cover art by Irene Endris

better image than previously posted

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

better image than previously posted

[updated 5/5/25]