August 1, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Newton Howitt

August 1, 1934 issue

cover art by John Newton Howitt

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “Easy to Kill” (Izzy O’Shea)

John Lawrence, “Call All Cars!” (Cass Blue)

Hugh B. Cave, “The Late Mr. Smythe” (Peter Kane)

Maxwell Hawkins, “Fair and Murder” (Jones & Jones)

Allan Vaughan Elston, “Star Witness”

Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Man’s Dinner” (Det. Colohan)

D.E. Winstead, “Heel Prints” (PI Tyson of Townsend Agency)

this is the first issue with 144 pages

February 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

February 1948 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Brazen Ghost”

Frederick C. Davis, “Tall, Dark, and Deadly”

Robert Turner, “Murder on My Mitts”

John D. MacDonald, “High Walls of Hate”

Johanas L. Bouma, “Homicidal Harmony”

Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Murchison Got a Gun”

L.S. Goldsmith, “Black Spots of Doom”