
cover art by Delos Palmer

cover art by Malvin Singer
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John Lawrence, “The Corpse That Didn’t Die” (Drago of HQ Dept)
Leslie T. White, “Ashes of the Living” (Ted Naughton, arson dick)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Vanishing Venus” (Carter Cold, MD)
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Into Thin Air” (Kip Lacey)
William E. Barrett, “A Man’s Last Hours” (Blue Barrel)

February 1939 issue
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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John K. Butler, “County Cleanup” (Tricky Enright)
Warren E. Barrett, “The Mad Mayor” (Blue Barrel)
Leslie T. White, “Dangerous But Passable!”
Erle Pierce, Jr., “Mum’s the Word for Murder”
Jan Dana, “Single Indemnity” (Acme Insurance Op)

cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Leslie T. White, “Eyewitness” (Tod Naughton, arson dick)
Donald G. Cooley, “Brood of the Green Bowman”
John Lawrence, “Murder by Magic” (Drago of Headquarters Squad)
John K. Butler, “Blood on the Buddha” (Rex Lonergan)

cover art attributed Malvin Singer, Walter Baumhofer, or Tom Lovell?
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Leslie T. White, “Matches in Hell” (Tod Naughton, arson dick)
Frederick Nebel, “The Sign of Murder” (Cardigan)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Silent Giantess” (Carter Cole, MD)
John Lawrence, “The Dope in the Death House (Colin Barr)
William E. Barrett, “The Blue Barrel” (Dean Culver, underworld gossip columnist)

cover art by William Reusswig
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Erle Stanley Gardner, “Time for Murder” (George Brokay)
John Lawrence, “The Scarlet Casket (Sam Beckett)
Leslie T. White, “The Zodiac Clue” (Bart Shane)
Jan Dana, “Panamint Oil”
George Alden Edson, “The Death Club” (Larry Sall)


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)
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cover art by Malvin Singer
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John K. Butler, “A Coffin for Two” (Rex Lonergan)
Leslie T. White, “Don’t Change Dames in the Middle of Murder”
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Card” (Needle Mike)
O.B. Myers, “You Can’t Trust a Corpse”
Maxwell Hawkins, “Forty Pounds of Flesh”
Norbert Davis, “Death Sings a Torch-Song” (Dennis Lee)
B.B. Fowler, “Avenging Angel”
Madelyn Ralph, “The Ghost in the Bottle”


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Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Killer-Diller”
Jan Dana, “Movable Alibi” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Leslie T. White, “Whole Hog or Nothing” (Sergeant Mackey)
O.B. Myers, “Cash on the Line”
Herbert Koehl, “Too Many Lefts”
Jackson Gregory, Jr., “Black is White”
