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cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “Easy to Kill” (Izzy O’Shea)
John Lawrence, “Call All Cars!” (Cass Blue)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Late Mr. Smythe” (Peter Kane)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Fair and Murder” (Jones & Jones)
Allan Vaughan Elston, “Star Witness”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Man’s Dinner” (Det. Colohan)
D.E. Winstead, “Heel Prints” (PI Tyson of Townsend Agency)
this is the first issue with 144 pages

cover art by John Newton Howitt
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Carroll John Daly, “Ticket to Murder” (Clay Holt)
George Harmon Coxe, “The Flaming Shadow” (Det. Carson)
Max Brand, “Wet Money” (Dave Clovelly)
Oscar Schisgall, “Palooka Death Pawn”
Anson Hatch, “Dumb Double” (Det. Jack Farley)
Robert C. Blackmon, “The Body in the Loge”
Richard Hoadley Tingley, “Crossroads of Crime #1”

cover art by John Newton Howitt
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Frederick Nebel, “Not So Tough” (Cardigan)
Fred MacIsaac, “Murder Reel” (Rambler Murphy)
J. Paul Suter, “Dead and Buried” (Horatio Humberton)
John Lawrence, “Guilty Party” (Cass Blue)
Edward S. Williams, “Seven Days Missing” (Det. Vance)
Dwight V. Babcock, “Pearls Without Publicity” (Kirk Daniels & Marcia Winters)
Anson Hatch, “Phantom Footsteps (Det. Larry Gilden)

cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “Red Alibi” (Bob Blair)
Eric Taylor, “The Barbary Horrors” (Det. Jess Arno)
Frederick C. Davis, “Murder in Bronze” (John Law, PI)
only issue on which the magazine title appeared in red instead of the usual yellow

cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “The Evil Brand” (Val Easton)
Eric Taylor, “Scarlet Wake” (Jim Kern)
Frederick Nebel, “Pardon My Murder” (Cardigan)
Max Brand, “The Unnumbered Door” (Dave Clovelly)
Cornell Woolrich, “Preview of Death” [revised into “Murder Before the Camera”] (Det. Galbraith)
Sam Powell, “Blood Storm”

cover art by John Howitt
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Carroll John Daly, “Make Your Own Corpse!” (Vee Brown)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Death from Down Under” (Jones & Jones)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Silver Doom” (Oke Oakley)