Master Detective Magazine, July, 1940, Vol. 22, No. 5
Dunellen, New Jersey: Macfadden Publications, Inc., 1940. Magazine. Very Good. Item #2326593
Slightly musty. Wrappers creased but still holding.
80 pp. True crime magazine with pulp detective fiction style cover art. Illustrated with photographs, period advertisements throughout (Pepsi, etc.). CONTENTS: Blue-Blood Brigand; Massacre Masquerade--Avenging the Bullet Inferno at Five Forks Tavern, As Told to Jan Bond Sheriff Proctor Fyffe, Lawrence County, Kentucky; Amorous Strangler and the Beauties Who Eloped with Death; Riddle of the Locked Room; Death Rides the Blizzard; Plunder Trail of the Preying Birds; Detroit's Extortion Mob and the Vanished Count, As Told to Virgil E. LaMarre, Paul H. Wencel, Chief of Detectives, Detroit Michigan, Police Department; Utah's Treacherous Romeo and the Fugitive Wife, As Told to A. Gillespie Former Marshal Charles E. Elkington, Tooele, Utah; Redman's Fury; Terror Racketeer-the Real Story of Lepke--Master of Violence (Part III), by Francis Preston Special Investigator for Master Detective; The Master Detective Line-Up.
Price: $40.00