March 1949 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

March 1949 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “Mr. Maddox’s Murder Parlay” (Mr. Maddox)

Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Slaughter in a Sarong” (Shamus Larkin)

John D. MacDonald, “I’ll Drown You in My Dreams”

Robert Martin, “Just a Corpse at Twilight”

Shane Darcy, “Dames Like Killing Too”

Harry Mason, “Death for Dessert”

September 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

September 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

D.L. Champion, “Mexican Slayride” (Mariano Mercado)

Dale Clark, “False Colors” (Plates O’Rion)

Merle Constiner, “The Affair of the Four Skeletons” (The Dean)

Mel Watt, “Killer Come Back to Me” (Sam Coad)

Bruno Fischer, “I’ll Slay You in My Dreams”

Ken Lewis, “Parlor, Bedroom and Death”

May 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Frederick C. Davis, “A Stiff in Time Saves Nine” (Bill Brent)

T.T. Flynn, “The Sooner the Deader” (Mr. Maddox)

C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Who Owns Boriska?” (Colonel Kaspir)

Richard Dermody, “The Doctor Deals” (Doc Pierce)

October 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

John K. Butler, “Hacker’s Holiday” (Steve Midnight)

John Lawrence, “Gallows 9” (Marquis of Broadway)

D.L. Champion, “Suicide in Blue (Insp. Allhoff)

Roger Torrey, “Candidate for a Killing”

O.B. Myers, “Death Laughs at Locksmiths”

June 1942 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

June 1942 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Peter Paige, “A Corpse for Cinderella” (Cash Wale)

Merle Constiner, “The Riddle of the Bashful Ghost” (The Dean)

Robert Reeves, “Murder Without Death” (Bookie Barnes)

Jan Dana, “The Case of the Meek Millionaire” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Richard Dermody, “Hello, Sucker!” (Doc Pierce)