December 1938 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

December 1938 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

better image than previously posted

Carroll John Daly, “The Quick and the Dead” (Race Williams)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Ghoul Hangs High” (Keyhole Kerry)

D.L. Champion, “Lock the Death House Door!”

O.B. Myers, “Don’t Bet on Ghosts” (Doc Kincaid)

Mark Harper, “Frame for a Fall-Guy”

April 1938 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

April 1938 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

better image than previously posted, cover credit corrected

T.T. Flynn, “The Nightingale Sings Death” (Bill Jennings)

Frederick C. Davis, “Maestro of Murder” (Keyhole Kerry)

John Lawrence, “Body About Town” (Marquis of Broadway)

O.B. Myers, “Second-Hand Coffin” (Chief Carmody)

Cyril Plunkett, “Half a Crime”

September 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

September 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

better image than previously posted

John K. Butler, “The Secret of the Wax Lady” (Tricky Enright)

Edward S. Williams, “Money in the Trees” (Paul Dana)

J.A.L. Chambliss, “A Corpse in the Rough” (Sid Harrison)

William Edward Hayes, “The Strip-Tease Murders” (Pete Niles)

Thorp McClusky, “Phantom Fingerprint”

O.B. Myers, “Death Takes the Winner”

July 1941 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1941 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Norbert Davis, “Watch Me Kill You!” (Max Latin)

James A. Kirch, “The Murder Master”

John K. Butler, “Dead Man’s Alibi” (Steve Midnight)

Cleve F. Adams, “Forty Pains” (O’Melveny and Dugan)

O.B. Myers, “The Wild Man of Wall Street”

July 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

July 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

better image than previously posted

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”

October 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

John K. Butler, “Hacker’s Holiday” (Steve Midnight)

John Lawrence, “Gallows 9” (Marquis of Broadway)

D.L. Champion, “Suicide in Blue (Insp. Allhoff)

Roger Torrey, “Candidate for a Killing”

O.B. Myers, “Death Laughs at Locksmiths”

May 1939 issue

May 1939 issue

better image than previously posted

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”

May 1941 issue

May 1941 issue

[perhaps my favorite cover but do not know the artist – at this point]

better image than previously posted

Frederick C. Davis, “Let the Skeletons Rattle” (Bill Brent)

Sam Merwin Jr., “Caviar for the Killer” (Sgt. Lanning)

Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Maladroit Manicurist”

D.L. Champion, “Curtain Call”

O.B. Myers, “Bonds to Burn”

June-July 1949 issue