November 1936 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

November 1936 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

November 1936 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

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Frederick Nebel, “Make Mine Murder” (Cardigan), reprinted in The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 4 (Altus Press, 2012)

Leslie T. White, “So You Won’t Talk, Eh?” (Duke Martindel)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Two Sticks of Death” (Small, Weston & Burke)

Fred MacIsaac, “The Corpse in the Taxicab” (Rainbow Murphy)

“The Tongueless Men”

 – Chapter 1: John Lawrence, “The Blonde with the Purple Tongue”

 – Chapter 2: T.T. Flynn, “The Vanishing Prelate”

 – Chapter 3: Carroll John Daly, “The Broken Bank”

 – Chapter 4: Frederick C. Davis, “The Lost Stairway”

 – Chapter 5: Warren E. Barrett, “Only Two Swords”

[Taylor notes in his Companion: ” This is the fifth anniversary issue. To celebrate, a contest was built around a round-robin story, ‘The Tongueless Men’, where readers were supposed to identify which writer did each chapter.“]

November 1937 issue

November 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer?

Leslie T. White, “Corpse Crazy” (Duke Martindel)

Raymond Chandler, “Mandarin’s Jade” (John Dalmas)

John K. Butler, “The Pied Piper of Frisco” (Rex Lonergan)

Hugh B. Cave, “Twenty After Murder” (Jitters Johnson)

Jan Dana, “Dead Failure”

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March 1, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

March 1, 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Leslie T. White, “The Crimson Counterfoil” (Duke Martindel)

John M. Gregory, “Track Racket” (Jim MacCauley)

John Lawrence, “A Burial is Arranged” (Cass Blue)

Russ Meservey, “The Fourth Pharaoh” (Pokerface)

Cornell Woolrich, “Murder in Wax” (Angelface)

O.B. Myers, “The Case of the Footless Corpse” (Breck)

April 15, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

April 15, 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Frederick Nebel, “Hell Couldn’t Stop Him” (Cardigan)

Leslie T. White, “Crook for a Night” (Toby Laird)

William Edward Hayes, “The Corpse on the Semaphore” (Dan Howell)

T. T. Flynn, “The Dragons of Change Ch’ien” (Val Easton)

O.B. Myers, “Grave Mates” (Jimmy McRay)

August 1936 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

August 1936 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Chinamen” (Needle Mike)

Leslie T. White, “The Bullet That Took Its Time” (Duke Martindel)

John K. Butler, “Parole for the Dead” (Tricky Enright)

Fred MacIsaac, “Blond Cargo” (Rambler Murphy)

Denslow M. Dade, “The Came On”

August 1, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

August 1, 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

T.T. Flynn, “The Monster of Hangman’s Key (Bill Clark)

Oscar Schisgall, “Murder Upstairs” (Don Cheever)

John Lawrence, “Design for Dying” (Sam Beckett)

Leslie T. White, “The Silver Shadow” (Jud Lunn)

a profile and picture of Leslie T. White appear on pages 123-124