May 1948 issue
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Frederick C. Davis, “Dicks Die Hard”
H.H. Stinson, “That’s Murder for You” (PI Mack Spain)
Robert Martin, “No Haven for Homicide”
Richard Dermody, “Doc Pierce’s Corny Caper” (Doc Pierce)
Don James, “Hearse for a Homicide”
Wyatt Blassingame, “The Reluctant Corpse”
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1952 Morrow hardcover
1954 Dell reissue
13th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam
cover art by Griffith Foxley
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gouache on illustration board, 11″ by 17″
1963 Avon paperback original
cover art by John Fleming Gould
Carroll John Daly, “The Men in Black” (Race Williams)
T.T. Flynn, “Death Rides the Favorite” (Mr. Maddox)
H.F. Howard, “Let Nature Takes Its Corpse”
Leslie T. White, “The Price of Square Joe Bund”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Murder Out of Thin Air” (Kip Lacey)
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December 15, 1934 issue
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
Frederick Nebel, “Leave it to Cardigan”
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Suicide House” (Small, Weston & Burke)
T.T. Flynn, “The Red Wizard” (Izzy O’Shea)
Carroll John Daly, “Excuse to Kill” (Clay Holt)
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Model T”
W.W. Van Dale, “Old Alibi” (Dave Anderson)
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July 1938 issue
Carroll John Daly, “A Corpse for a Corpse” (Race Williams)
Will McMorrow, “The House with the Red Door)
D.L. Campion, “Footprints on a Brain” (Insp. Allhoff)
T.T. Flynn, “Mr. Maddox and the Gray Ghost”
Jan Dana, “Murder for Not Much”
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December 1959 Pocket paperback, 2nd print
2nd Lew Archer, an August 1950 Knopf hardcover
cover painting by James Meese
January 1938 issue
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
Carroll John Daly, “Book of the Dead” (Race Williams)
Raymond Chandler, “Red Wind” (John Dalmas)
Jan Dana, “To the Murder Born”
B.B. Fowler, “Lead Legacy”
George A. Shaftel, “Star-Crossed”
Dale Clark, “Stone-Blind Killer”
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“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. One nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husband’s necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.” – Chandler, “Red Wind”
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