September 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

September 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

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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

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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

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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

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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”

May 1941 issue

May 1941 issue

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

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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

August 1939 issue

August 1939 issue

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Carroll John Daly, “Gangman ’s Gallows” (Race Williams)

Raymond Chandler, “Trouble is My Business ” (John Dalmas)

Edward Ronns, “Three Doors to Doom”

O.B. Myers, “Fire and Ice”

Hugh B. Cave, “Deal from the Bottom”

D.L. Champion, “Laughter in Hell”

April 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

April 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

better image than previously posted

John K. Butler, “Gallows Ghost” (Tricky Enright)

John Lawrence, “The Corpse That Came to Call”

Leslie T. White, “Lullaby in Lead” (Duke Martindell)

Robert Sidney Bowen, “Dead Takes the Air” (Kip Lacey)

O.B. Myers, “The Black Room”

Malvin Singer, “She Found the Mutilated Forearm”

May 15, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

May 15, 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Oscar Schisgall, “Gambling Man” (Danny Fenton)

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Curse” (Needle Mike)

Maxwell Hawkins, “Dead Sees Red”

William Edward Hayes, “Hot Shot to Hell” (Dan Howell)

O.B. Myers, “The Corpse Watch (Tuttle and Tommy Merkle)