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Spicy Adventure, October 1941 Cover by Harry Lemon Parkhurst

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H.L. Parkhurst

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June 1931 issue

cover art by H. L. Parkhurst

George Henry Daugherty, “The Clock Struck 13" 

Henry Leverage, “Electric Ballots" (“Big Scar” Guffman)   

Don Charles: Dictionary of Thieves’ Argot 

L. Patrick Greene, “Southdown Mutton", Argosy All-Story Weekly, September 7, 1929    

William A. Ucker, “The Big Palookah"  

Charles G. Booth, “Crime of Circumstance"   

Mark Mellen, “Ivory O’Toole, Wise Guy", (probably not the same as the story of the same name in the August, 1931 issue)   

W.W. Van Dale, “Double Double Cross"  

U.V. Wilcox: Our National Dependence Upon the Police

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Artist Profile: Harry Lemon Parkhurst (1876 -- 1962)

Artist Profile: Harry Lemon Parkhurst (1876 — 1962)

Often credited as either “H.L. Parkhurst” or “H.L.V. Parkhurst,” the Minnesota-born Harry Lemon Parkhurst studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and worked as an illustrator for 52 years.  No matter which name he used, his work and style is always easy to spot.  Parkhurst is perhaps best remembered for the covers that he painted for Spicy Adventure Stories.  Sadly, this talented artist…

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“Cards of Death” Spicy Detective Stories, July 1935 Cover by Harry Lemon Parkhurst

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Who Draws First by Harry Lemon Parkhurst

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Spicy-Adventure Stories, September 1936, cover by Harry Lemon Parkhurst

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Land of Men Unhung by Gladwell Richardson Cover by Harry Lemon Parkhurst

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December 1931 issue

cover art by H.L. Parkhurst

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January 1940  issue

Martin Kersey, “Consigned to Hell"   

E. Hoffmann Price, “Mummies to Order" 

Noel Loomis, “Dealer in Human Parts"    

John Easterly, “Danse Macabre"   

David V. Reed, “Black Doom"

Don Joseph, “Grim Evidence"   

Kelvin Kent (Henry Kuttner), “Death Has Three Sisters"   

John H. Knox, “Wake Not the Dead”, illustrated by H.L. Parkhurst   

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September 1931 issue

cover art by H.L. Parkhurst

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Mar. 25th, 1936 issue

cover art by H. L. Parkhurst

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September 1933 issue

cover art by H. L. Parkhurst

Frederick C. Painton, “City Jungle"

John Mallory, “Murder Pay-Off”

Earl W. Scott, “Murder Men of Wang"

Anson Hatch, “Ticket to Nowhere"

Norvell Page, “Gum Chew Work"

Norman A. Daniels, “The Fourth Corpse"

Ellsworth Tucker, “Roman Holiday"

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September 1934 issue

cover art by Howard Parkhurst

Allan K. Echols, “The Snatch Racket"

Stephen Chalmers, “House of the Two Green Eyes”, Doubleday 1928   

Leslie Charteris, “The Simon Templar Foundation” (Simon Templar/The Saint), The Thriller, February 10, 1934, as “The Book of Fate”   

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April 1943 issue

J. Lane Linklater, “Killer’s Gift"

Marvin Ryerson, “Stuck with Murder", illustrated by H.I. Parkhurst  

Albert A. Rabin, “Appointment with Murder"

Joe Archibald, “Sham and Eggs” (Willie Klump), illustrated by Joe Archibald

Ted Coughlan, “Somebody Stole My Corpse", illustrated by H.I. Parkhurst   

Arthur J. Burks, “Shadows on the Wall"

Tom Curry, “An Old Account"

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May 1937 issue 

G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “The Brothers of Doom” (Diamondstone)

Ray Cummings, “The Ghost Murderer” (Dr. Feather)  

Margie Harris, “Murder in the Family”    

Frederick C. Painton, “The Black Pearl"   

Frank Gruber, “Death from the Blue"   

Benton Braden, “Jackpot Kill”, illustrated by H.L. Parkhurst    

Lee Fredericks, “Chiseling Is an Art” (Pierre Barodin)  

J.S. Endicott, “Jar of Death" 

Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Dead Can’t Fly”, Dare-Devil Aces, March 1937    

George Armin Shaftel, “Death Held Four Aces"

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