
cover art by Allen Anderson
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“The Marvelous Boy.” Cover art for the book of the same name by Peter Corris, published by Fawcett in 1982. Acrylic on board. 533×305 mm; 21×12 inches, on 22 3/4×15-inch board. Signed “Hooks” in lower right image.

3rd (of 42) in the long-running private eye series [owner’s copy]

October 1937 issue
cover art by Malvin Singer
Carroll John Daly, “Anyone’s Corpse” (Race Williams)
T.T. Flynn, “Burning Ice”
Fred MacIsaac, “Fall-Guy” (Rambler Murphy)
John Lawrence, “Escape Mechanism (Marquis of Broadway)
Cornell Woolrich, “Stuck with Murder”
Donald S. Aitken, “Two Heels Too Many” (Det. Pope)
[updated 11/13/25]

cover art by Jerome Rozen

[post updated 1/13/24 – new cover and title page – and again on 4/26/25]

May 1, 1933 issue
cover art by William Reusswig
T.T. Flynn, “The House of Vanishing Men” (Jerry Prince)
Frederick Nebel, “Dead Man’s Folly” (Cardigan)
George Allan Moffatt, “The Crimson Heart Murders” (Jim Finn)
Westmoreland Gray, “The Cowled Horror” (Colin Windsor)
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1971 MGM one sheet, 27×41″

March 1, 1933 issue
cover art by William Reusswig
T.T. Flynn, “The Black Phantom” (Det. Dan O’Shea)
Frederick Nebel, “Doorway to Danger” (Cardigan)
John Lawrence, “The Corpse in Cage Two” (Sam Beckett)
MacKinlay Kantor, “The Shadow Point”
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February 1936 issue
cover art by Tom Lovell
Carroll John Daly, “Corpse & Co.” (Race Williams)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Cop” (Needle Mike)
T.T. Flynn, “The Bride of the Beast” (Steve Waring)
Donald S. Aitken, “Postlude to Murder”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Flying Coffin” (Kip Lacey of Central Airways)
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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”
[updated 11/15/25]