December 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

December 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

Hank Searls, “Auld Land Crime”

Richard F. Glendinning, “Sitting Duck Running Wild”

Frederick C. Davis, “Tune in on Murder” (Keyhole Kerry), reprinted from 1936

Mel Cotton, “Her Perfect Frame” (Shamus Buster)

Morris Cooper, “The Grave Killer”

Corretta Slavsky, “Checkmated!”

Robert Turner, “Slay, Maestro, Slay!”

April 1951 issue ~ cover art by Albert Drake

April 1951 issue

cover art by Albert Drake

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Thorne Lee, “The Hill to Die”

Hank Napheys, “The Bloodbank Killings” (reprint from 1943)

John Bender, “Room for Murder”

Alvin Yudkoff, “Stand-in for Death”

Robert Turner, “Slay Belles”

November 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

November 1947 issue

cover art by Rafael de Soto

better image than previously posted

Peter Paige, “The Cash Wale Massacre” (Case Wale)

John Knox, “The Half-World — and Moonrake”

John Whiting, “Killers Prefer Blondes”

Robert Turner, “To Love, Honor – and Betray”

Ken Greene, “Crime on My Hands”

John D. MacDonald, “My Mission is Murder”

December 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

December 1947 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Frederick C. Davis, “Open the Morgue, Richard!” (Thackeray Hackett)

Thorne Lee, “A Corpse Slept Here”

James Howard Leveque, “A Share in the Slaughter”

Mark Mallory, “Killer Take All”

Don James, “I’ll Never Slay Again”

Charles Larson, “Brat’s Brew o’Murder”

Robert Turner, “Crime Doesn’t Play”

July 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

July 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

John D. MacDonald, “Dead Men Don’t Scare”

Talmage Powell, “Forget-Me-Not Killer”

Frederick C. Davis, “If the Noose Fits”

Robert Turner, “Murder in Her Wake”

Van MacNair, Jr., “White-Collar Stiff”

Russell Branch, “So Sorry – So Dead”

Scott O’Hara, “Five-Star Fugitive” (pen name of MacDonald’s)