February 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

February 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Carroll John Daly, “Cash for a Killer” (Race Williams)

Jan Dana, “One Vote for Murder” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Roger Torrey, “Lock, Stock and Barrel”

Norbert Davis, “Murder Down Deep” (William ‘Bail-Bond’ Dodd)

Leslie T. White, “Rough on Rats”

Riley Williams, “The Corpse with the Missing Finger”

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)