August 1948 issue
better image than previously posted
cover art by Norman Saunders
Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams’ Double Date”
Paula Elliott, “Salt on a Siren’s Trail” (Boden)
John D. MacDonald, “Cavaliers Make Good Corpse”
Don James, “Quick Buck – Quick Kill”
Roderick Lull, “Gentleman’s Vengeance”
Ted Stratton, “Butterfly’s Bier”
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better image than previously posted
cover art by Malvin Singer
Carroll John Daly, “Just Another Stiff” (Race Williams)
Fred MacIsaac, “Cat’s-Paw for Murder” (Rambler Murphy)
Frederick Nebel, “Lead Poison” (Cardigan)
Cornell Woolrich, “The Living Lie Down with the Dead”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Flying Diamond”
November 1929 issue, Joseph T. Shaw, editor
better image than previously posted
cover painting by J.W. Schlaikjer
Frederick Nebel, “Hell-Smoke” (Capt. MacBride novelette)
Dashiell Hammett, “The Maltese Falcon” (part two of the serialized novel before publication as a novel – first appearance of this section- not even mentioned on the cover)
Earl and Marion Scott, “The Second Spartan”
Carroll John Daly, “The Silver Eagle” (Race Williams novelette)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Brass Tacks” (Ed Jenkins novelette)
Tom Curry, “The Man from Headquarters”
Henry Wallace Phillips, “The Demon in the Canyon”
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