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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”
cover art by Malvin Singer
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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”
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)
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Carroll John Daly, “Some Die Hard” (Race Williams)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Crimson Jade”
O.B. Myers, “The White Mask”
Norvell W. Page, “Satan’s Sideshow”
Cornell Woolrich, “The Corpse and the Kid”
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cover art by Walter Baumhofer
“The Curse of Cardigan” (PI Cardigan), Frederick Nebel
“Rapped in Cellophane” (Mark Hall), J. Allan Dunn
“Murder on the Mississippi” (Rambler Murphy), Fred MacIsaac
“The House of Sudden Sleep” (Leon Pell), Hugh B. Cave
“Dead on her Feet” (Det. Smith), Cornell Woolrich
“Blood Orchids” (Dade), O.B. Myers
May 1938 issue
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cover art by John Fleming Gould
Fred MacIsaac, “Nobody’s Stooge” (Rambler Murphy)
William E. Barrett, “The Devil’s Dice” (Blue Barrel)
John K. Butler, “Why Shoot a Corpse?” (Tricky Enright)
O.B. Myers, “The Golden Gag”
Cornell Woolrich, “Short-Order Kill”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Five Seconds to Murder”
Lawrence Treat, “The Ghoul with the Green Eyes”
SMB Noir 
