
first issue with this slightly altered title (from “Famous Detective”)
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first issue with this slightly altered title (from “Famous Detective”)
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cover art by Malvin Singer
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John Lawrence, “The Corpse That Didn’t Die” (Drago of HQ Dept)
Leslie T. White, “Ashes of the Living” (Ted Naughton, arson dick)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Vanishing Venus” (Carter Cold, MD)
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Into Thin Air” (Kip Lacey)
William E. Barrett, “A Man’s Last Hours” (Blue Barrel)

cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Frederick Nebel, “Murder by Mail” (Cardigan)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” (Martin Lane)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Circle” (Needle Mike)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Queen’s Headsman” (Carter Cole)
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Corpse in Seat 2” (Kip Lacey)
“Murder by Mail” was reprinted in Hard-Boiled Dames (St. Martin’s, 1986) and The Complete Cases of Cardigan (Altus Press, 2011)
“The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action (Carroll & Graff, 2001)

cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Carroll John Daly, “Red Dynamite” (Vee Brown)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Corpse’s Bride” (Carter Cole, MD)
T.T. Flynn, “Murder Moon”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Other Bullet” (Kip Lacey)
William E. Barrett, “Death on the Double-O” (Blue Barrel)


cover art by Walter Baumhofer
Frederick C. Davis, “The Green Ghoul” (Oke Oakley)
Donald Barr Chidsey, “The Scar Clue” (Morton & McGarvey)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Brand of Kane” (Peter Kane)
Fred MacIsaac, “Heir-Cooled” (Rambler Murphy)
Phillip Clark, “Three-Letter Kill”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Key to Murder” (Ted James)
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cover art by Rudolph Belarski

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cover art by Tom Lovell
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Carroll John Daly, “Monogram in Lead” (Race Williams)
T.T. Flynn, “A Date at the Morgue”
John K. Butler, “The Walking Dead” (Rex Lonergan)
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Man Who Was Two” (Kip Lacey)
John Lawrence, “Broadway Malady” (Marquis of Broadway)
a letter from JKB appeared on pgs. 123-124
