May 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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T.T. Flynn, “Gee-Gee Doublecross” (Mr. Maddox)

C.William Harrison, “The Bones of Barnaby Bliss” (Hannibal Smith)

Dale Clark, “Better Late Than Cadaver” (High Price)

Julius Long, “Chicanery Row” (C.D. Mort)

Robert C. Dennis, “Dial Your Own Murder” 

April 1941 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

April 1941 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “Trot Out Your Murder” (Mr. Maddox)

Peter Paige, “The Bullet From Nowhere” (Cash Wale)

D.L. Champion, “Coffee for a Killer” (Insp. Allhoff)

Jan Dana, “Cheese it – The Corpse” (Acme Indemnity Op)

John Earl Davis, “Try This on Your Knife”

May 1941 issue

May 1941 issue

[perhaps my favorite cover but do not know the artist – at this point]

better image than previously posted

Frederick C. Davis, “Let the Skeletons Rattle” (Bill Brent)

Sam Merwin Jr., “Caviar for the Killer” (Sgt. Lanning)

Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Maladroit Manicurist”

D.L. Champion, “Curtain Call”

O.B. Myers, “Bonds to Burn”

June-July 1949 issue

October 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

October 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

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”