cover art by William Reusswig
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J. Paul Suter, “The Angel of the Damned” (Horatio Humberton)
T.T. Flynn, “Dead Man’s Lottery” (Danny Eagen)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Crippled Corpse” (Dick Bentley)
James A. Goldthwaite, “Murder in B Minor” (Jerry Conover)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Pipe Line of Peril (Sleepy O’Neill)
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 Rafael DeSoto
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T.T. Flynn, “A Horse of Another Killer, (Mr. Maddox)
C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Fingers of Ice” (Colonel Kaspir)
Norbert Davis, “Too Many Have Died” (Peter Tracy)
William Brandon, “Quiet Street”
Mark Lish, “Ashes in the Valley”
cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “Red Alibi” (Bob Blair)
Eric Taylor, “The Barbary Horrors” (Det. Jess Arno)
Frederick C. Davis, “Murder in Bronze” (John Law, PI)
only issue on which the magazine title appeared in red instead of the usual yellow
cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “The Evil Brand” (Val Easton)
Eric Taylor, “Scarlet Wake” (Jim Kern)
Frederick Nebel, “Pardon My Murder” (Cardigan)
Max Brand, “The Unnumbered Door” (Dave Clovelly)
Cornell Woolrich, “Preview of Death” [revised into “Murder Before the Camera”] (Det. Galbraith)
Sam Powell, “Blood Storm”
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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T.T. Flynn, “The Nightingale Sings Death” (Bill Jennings)
Frederick C. Davis, “Maestro of Murder” (Keyhole Kerry)
John Lawrence, “Body About Town” (Marquis of Broadway)
O.B. Myers, “Second-Hand Coffin” (Chief Carmody)
Cyril Plunkett, “Half a Crime”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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T.T. Flynn, “Hayseed Homicide”
Dale Clark, “Tag! You’re Dead” (Plates O’Rion)
D.L. Champion, “Go Home and Die! (Insp. Allhoff)
Cornell Woolrich, “What the Well-Dressed Corpse Will Wear”
Julius Long, “Accidents Will Happen”
cover art by Albert Drake
Frederick C. Davis, “Man About Murder”
T.T. Flynn, “I’ll Bet Your Life!” (Mr. Maddox)
Robert Martin, “Doctor of Doom”
Richard Dermody, “Cupid for Cash” (Doc Pierce)
Dean Evans, “Dreams Get Blasted, Too”
Russell Branch, “A Corpse Had Cold Feet”
[updated 5/12/25]
cover art by William Reusswig
T.T. Flynn, “Torture Tavern” (Val Easton vs. Black Doctor)
Ralph Oppenheim, “The Death Lady” (Glen Kelsey, PI)
Frederick Nebel, “Scrambled Murder” (Cardigan)
Edward Parrish Ware, “The Gallows Cure”
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