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10-Story Detective Magazine Content This 1941 issue of 10-Story Detective features ten crime and mystery stories. "Satan Holds a Seance" by Norman A. Daniels is a novelette in which Detective Jim Thayer goes undercover, posing as the mystic Ram Omar—a supposed spiritualist believed to be using séances as a cover for murder-for-hire. Omar, allegedly a former member of India's Thuggee band, is suspected of killing four men with a red silk garrotte. Thayer must gather evidence against Omar's clients by conducting séances. Other stories include "Crime's Client" (Guy Fleming) about Sam Hawke risking dynamite for money, "Memo from the Corpse" (Grant Mason) where poison reveals an underworld leader, "Handcuffed to Homicide" (Fred Clayton) featuring a body on a doorstep, and "Dine, Dance—and Die!" (Robert Turner), a novelette concerning a murdered mermaid at a lake. Additional stories cover blackmail, amateur detecting, and murder investigations. The issue includes advertisements for government postal examinations and fingerprint identification training courses.