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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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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cover art by John Fleming Gould
Carroll John Daly, “A Corpse for a Corpse” (Race Williams)
Will McMorrow, “The House with the Red Door)
D.L. Champion, “Footprints on a Brain” (Insp. Allhoff)
T.T. Flynn, “Mr. Maddox and the Gray Ghost”
Jan Dana, “Murder for Not Much”
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[updated 2/1/26]
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”
