November 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

November 1939 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

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Carroll John Daly, “The White-Headed Corpse” (Race Williams)

Michael Sutton, “The Devil’s Portrait”

Jan Dana, “Too Week to Kill” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Dale Clark, “The Short and Merry One”

Roger Torrey, “Fire Test”

Maurice Beam, “Mind Over Matter”

Robert K. Adams, “Curtain Call”

D.L. Champion, “Dumb Dick”

July 1939 issue

July 1939 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould?

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D.L. Champion, “Cover the Corpse’s Eyes” (Insp. Allhoff)

Cornell Woolrich, “Charlie Won’t Be Home Tonight”

Sam Merwin, Jr., “Murder for Syndication”

Jan Dana, “The Second Loop” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Leslie T. White, “Me and My Shadow” (Omar MacKenzie)

January 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

January 1939 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

“It’s the McCoy” (Paul Pine) by Erle Stanley Gardner

“The Fugitive Skeleton” (Keyhole Kerry) by Frederick C. Davis

“The Judas Touch” (Acme Indemnity Op) by Jan Dana

“The Lady in the Lake” (John Dalmas) by Raymond Chandler

“One for the Book” by Walter C. Brown

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October 1938 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

October 1938

cover art by John Fleming Gould

Carroll John Daly, “The Men in Black” (Race Williams)

T.T. Flynn, “Death Rides the Favorite” (Mr. Maddox)

H.F. Howard, “Let Nature Takes Its Corpse”

Leslie T. White, “The Price of Square Joe Bund”

Robert Sidney Bowen, “Murder Out of Thin Air” (Kip Lacey)

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May 1938 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

May 1938 issue

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cover art by John Fleming Gould

Fred MacIsaac, “Nobody’s Stooge” (Rambler Murphy)

William E. Barrett, “The Devil’s Dice” (Blue Barrel)

John K. Butler, “Why Shoot a Corpse?” (Tricky Enright)

O.B. Myers, “The Golden Gag”

Cornell Woolrich, “Short-Order Kill”

Robert Sidney Bowen, “Five Seconds to Murder”

Lawrence Treat, “The Ghoul with the Green Eyes”