
cover art by John A. Coughlin

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.“]

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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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)

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
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”