February 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

February 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Damon Knight, “Slayer’s Solo”

Day Keene, “Doc Egg’s Graveyard Reunion” (Doc Egg)   

Ejler Jacobson, “The Little Red Murder School”

Ken Lewis, “Country Cadaver”

Talmage Powell, “Stay as Dead as You Are”

Ken Kessler: “The Crimson Thread”

Robert Bloch, “The Noose Hangs High”

John Corbett, “Hound of Hell”

Milton T. Land, “Home to the Kill” 

R. Sprague Hall, “The Case of the Walking God”

February 1952 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

February 1952 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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Robert Martin, “Death Under Glass” (Lee Fisk)

Hank Searls, “For Tomorrow We Die”

Talmage Powell, “Nobody’s Darling”

Frederick C. Davis, “Furlough for Murder” (reprint from 1943)

Larry Holden, “Prelude for Wake”

Don James, “G-String Kill”

John Bender, “In Jail By Christmas” (published in 1941 as “Prelude to an Operation”)

Ray Darby, “According to Plan”

July 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

July 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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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)

October 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

October 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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Mel Cotton, “Kill and Make Up” (Det. Winters)

Talmage Powell, “There Was a Crooked Man”

Cornell Woolrich, “The Fatal Footlights” (reprinted from 1941)

Walter Snow, “Exclusive Sucker”

W.P. Brothers, “Mourner’s Bench”

Harvey Weinstein, “Spoiler for a Wise Guy”

Robert Martin, “Murder on the Make”

August 1952 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

August 1952 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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John D. MacDonald, “Trap for a Tigress!”

Richard Deming, “Here’s Blood in My Eye!”

Albert Simmons, “Strictly Guilt-Edged”

Talmage Powell, “The Beautiful Miss Borgia”

Philip Ketchum, “The Good Neighbors”

Larry Holden, “Sing a Song of Murder”

Harry Widmer, “The Key”

Dane Gregory, “My Night to Kill” (reprint from 1941)