cover art by Victor Kalin
better image than previously posted
better image than previously posted
cover art by Dick Shelton
[updated 9/22/25]
The Price of Murder x 3
Tag: john d. macdonald
1951 Gold Medal paperback original – cover art by Barye Phillips
The Neon Jungle x 4 + 1
1953 Gold Medal paperback original
1958 Gold Medal reissue – cover art attributed to James Meese
1960 Digit UK paperback – not the MacDonald but same art
September 1949 issue
May 1949 issue
better image than previously posted
Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Carnival Kill” (Cash Wale)
Theodore Sturgeon, “Die, Maestro, Die!”
Carroll John Daly, “Half a Corpse” (Race Williams)
Larry J. Marcus, “Dead Man Blues”
R.M.F. Joses, “Bad to the Last Drop”
Robert Carlton, “Sealed with a Kiss” (Mike Brent)
John D. MacDonald, “You’ll Never Escape”
later UK edition, includes five pieces from US May 1949 edition
Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Carnival Kill”
Theodore Sturgeon, “Die Maestro, Die!”
Larry J. Marcus, “Dead Man Blues”
R.M.F. Joses, “Bad to the Last Drop”
Ted Palmer, “The June Thrill Docket”
stories by Daly, Carlton and MacDonald omitted
March 1949 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
T.T. Flynn, “Mr. Maddox’s Murder Parlay” (Mr. Maddox)
Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Slaughter in a Sarong” (Shamus Larkin)
John D. MacDonald, “I’ll Drown You in My Dreams”
Robert Martin, “Just a Corpse at Twilight”
Shane Darcy, “Dames Like Killing Too”
Harry Mason, “Death for Dessert”
October 1949 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams Cooks a Goose”
John D. MacDonald, “Target for Tonight”
William P. McGivern, “Hunt Her in Hell”
Raymond Drennan, Jr., “He Woke Up Dying”
Preston Grady, “Killing’s Too Easy”
Charles Larson, “My Crime – Your Punishment”
May 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
September 1949 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
July 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
John D. MacDonald, “Dead Men Don’t Scare”
Talmage Powell, “Forget-Me-Not Killer”
Frederick C. Davis, “If the Noose Fits”
Robert Turner, “Murder in Her Wake”
Van MacNair, Jr., “White-Collar Stiff”
Russell Branch, “So Sorry – So Dead”
Scott O’Hara, “Five-Star Fugitive” (pen name of MacDonald’s)
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