June 1949 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

June 1949 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders (note his name in reverse on the door)

better image than previously posted

Robert Martin, “A Shroud in Her Trousseau” (Jim Bennett)

Frederick C. Davis, “Up in Murder’s Room”

John D. MacDonald, “Too Many Sinners”

Russell Branch, “Mayhem in her Madness”

Francis Hamilton, “Cheez-it, the Cops”

Don Campbell, “A Sap Takes the Rap”

Jhan Robbins, “Tin-Lazy Houdini”

September 1949 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

September 1949 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

Frederick C. Davis, “Sinner Take All”

John D. MacDonald, “Murder Run-Around”

Robert Martin, “Deadliest Dame in Town” (Jim Bennett)

Paul W. Fairman, “Spotlight on Slaughter”

E.A. Morris, “I’ll Laugh at Your Funeral”

Larry J. Marcus, “The Spider’s Web”

Harvey Weinstein, “Rendezvous with Blood”

Scott O’Hara, “Mad About Murder” (pen name of John D. MacDonald)

June 1951 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

June 1951 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 22 x 15 in.

better image than previously posted

Albert Simmons, “Dead Air”

Day Keene, “He Who Dies Last, Dies Hardest” (reprint from 1943)

Raymond Drennen, Jr., “Pennies From Hell”

Rufus Bakalor, “A Hitch in Crime”

Don James, “Babe and the Hoods”

Duane Yarnell, “Death on the Menu” (Patrolman Kelly)

[I wonder which was reversed – the image of the painting or the image for the cover…]

December 1951 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

December 1951 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

John D. MacDonald, “ The Girl Who Wanted Money”

Hank Napheys, “Slayer, Come Back to Me” (reprint from 1946)

Larry Holden, “The High Cost of Chivalry”

Stewart Sterling, “Dying Room Only” (reprint from 1943)

Philip Weck, “Forgotten Killer”

Donald Barr Chidsey, “Incident at Opunohu”

Philip Ketchum, “The Cop with All the Luck”

Rufus Bakalor, “Hundred Grand Feature”

Robert M. Hodges, “Wellspring of Murder”

October 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

October 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

Mel Cotton, “Kill and Make Up” (Det. Winters)

Talmage Powell, “There Was a Crooked Man”

Cornell Woolrich, “The Fatal Footlights” (reprinted from 1941)

Walter Snow, “Exclusive Sucker”

W.P. Brothers, “Mourner’s Bench”

Harvey Weinstein, “Spoiler for a Wise Guy”

Robert Martin, “Murder on the Make”