April 1949 issue

April 1949 issue

cover art by Albert Drake?

better image than previously posted

Robert Martin, “Murder the Bum” (Stephen Abbott)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Merry Queen of Murder” (Thackeray Hackett)

John D. MacDonald, “The Corpse Belongs to Daddy” (Donald Cheyne)

James A. Kirch, “Shoot If You Must” (Brad Harkness)

Dorothy Dunn, “Oblivion for Me” (Hollis Dorsey)

Johanas L. Bouma, “Bury Your Own Dead” (Joe Bowers)

Stuart Friedman, “Angel in the Deathhouse” (Thad Preston)

Jack Winters, “Slayer at Sea” (Thomas Brain)

November 1949 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

November 1949 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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Robert Martin, “Slayers Go Solo” (Jim Bennett)

Frederick C. Davis, “You Kill Me, Honey!”

Hank Searls, “A Dish of Homicide”

Harold Q. Masur, “Widow in Waiting” (Scott Jordan)

Richard Glendenning, “Reach for Your Coffin”

John D. MacDonald, “The Durable Corpse”

Johnas L. Bouma, “Birth of a Killer”

August 1951 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

August 1951 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

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February 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

February 1948 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Brazen Ghost”

Frederick C. Davis, “Tall, Dark, and Deadly”

Robert Turner, “Murder on My Mitts”

John D. MacDonald, “High Walls of Hate”

Johanas L. Bouma, “Homicidal Harmony”

Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Murchison Got a Gun”

L.S. Goldsmith, “Black Spots of Doom”