December 1952 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

December 1952 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 20.5 x 14.75 in.

better image than previously posted

Craig Rice & Mark Hope, “Case of the Vanishing Blonde” (Ed Bradbury)

Tiah Devitt, “The Merry Wives of Murder” (reprint from 1942)

Larry Holden, “Lady-Killer”

Richard Goggin, “For Old Crime’s Sake”

V.E. Thiessen, “Lady in Hades”

John Bender, “Tying Room Only”

Andrew Holt, “Death on a Platter”

Rufus Bakalor, “Love, Honor and Slay”

April 1952 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

April 1952 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

John D. MacDonald, “The Man From Limbo”

William Campbell Gault, “There’s Got to be an Angle”

Frederick C. Davis, “The Deadly Double”

Westmoreland Gray, “One Head Shorter”

Rufus Bakalor, “Tailspin Cutie”

John Bender, “She Wouldn’t Stay Dead”

John Lawrence, “Music from Hell”

Coretta Slavsky, “Relax and Regret”

June 1951 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

June 1951 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 22 x 15 in.

better image than previously posted

Albert Simmons, “Dead Air”

Day Keene, “He Who Dies Last, Dies Hardest” (reprint from 1943)

Raymond Drennen, Jr., “Pennies From Hell”

Rufus Bakalor, “A Hitch in Crime”

Don James, “Babe and the Hoods”

Duane Yarnell, “Death on the Menu” (Patrolman Kelly)

[I wonder which was reversed – the image of the painting or the image for the cover…]

December 1951 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

December 1951 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

John D. MacDonald, “ The Girl Who Wanted Money”

Hank Napheys, “Slayer, Come Back to Me” (reprint from 1946)

Larry Holden, “The High Cost of Chivalry”

Stewart Sterling, “Dying Room Only” (reprint from 1943)

Philip Weck, “Forgotten Killer”

Donald Barr Chidsey, “Incident at Opunohu”

Philip Ketchum, “The Cop with All the Luck”

Rufus Bakalor, “Hundred Grand Feature”

Robert M. Hodges, “Wellspring of Murder”

November 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

November 1950

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

Robert Martin, “Slayers Burn Slow” (Jim Bennett)

Donn Mullally, “A Bullet for Baby”

T.T. Flynn, “Build-Up for Murder”*

Rufus Bakalor, “Homicidal Hobby”

Raymond Drennan, Jr., “Killer’s Luck”

John D. MacDonald, “Tri-Kill Cutie”

*reprint from 1941