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December 1936 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

December 1936

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

Robert Wallace (W. Ryerson Johnson), “The Silent Death” (Richard Curtis Van Loan/The Phantom Detective)    

Robert C. Blackmon, “Nailed” 

Robert H. Leitfred, “Allison’s Last Pinch”    

Hugh Austin, “Storeroom of Death”   

Leonard B. Rosborough, “Steele Preferred”

better image than previously posted

1939 Knopf hardcover – cover art by Hawkins

First Edition. Hawkins dustjacket art. Rare hard-boiled mystery by this author who died young in 1945.

first novel with private eye Cellini Smith

there had been seven Smith short stories published in Black Mask Magazine by the time of the author’s death.