
cover art by H.J. Ward
better image than previously posted

May 1943 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Cornell Woolrich, “Mind over Murder”
W.T. Ballard, “A Heel of the First Water”
Dale Clark, “Death is from Taxes” (Plates O’Rion)
Duane Yarnell, “Murder is My Meat”
Frederick C. Davis, “Home Sweet Homicide” (Bill Brant)
Henry Norton, “Bait”

[updated 5/14/25]

pen name of Milton K. Ozaki
1955 Graphic Mystery paperback original
cover art by Walter Popp
better image than previously posted

1956 Phantom paperback original from Australia
a number of changes to the cover:
– plant to phone in bottom left corner
— her hair is smoother
–yellow dress to red
–bracelet changed
–jewelry box different color
–background changed to window
–background table different, books different, bookend gone
–front table different
— mantle and logs different
–colors brighter and smoother

cover art by H.J. Ward
better image than previously posted
later repainted and used for the March 1939 Spicy Detective


2008 Academy of Chicago Press reissue of the 2nd Charlie Chan novel, first published in 1926. Second of the six Chan mysteries.
neo-pulp cover by Chris Rahn