

[cover art added 5/20/26]

cover art by Norman Saunders (note his name in reverse on the door)
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Robert Martin, “A Shroud in Her Trousseau” (Jim Bennett)
Frederick C. Davis, “Up in Murder’s Room”
John D. MacDonald, “Too Many Sinners”
Russell Branch, “Mayhem in her Madness”
Francis Hamilton, “Cheez-it, the Cops”
Don Campbell, “A Sap Takes the Rap”
Jhan Robbins, “Tin-Lazy Houdini”


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”


cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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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”


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