5 Detective Novels Magazine, Winter 1950

FIVE DETECTIVE NOVELS, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1950) This quarterly pulp magazine features five complete detective stories by established writers. "Claim of the Fleshless Corpse" by George Bruce follows insurance detective "Toughy" Nichols, a tough operator who boasts of thwarting phony claims. When a case stumps him, he partners with Dr. Sylvester Corrigan, a Harvard-educated surgeon, to investigate a mysterious skeleton and determine whether murder occurred. "The House of Frogs" by Westmoreland Gray depicts Detective Tracy Hill infiltrating a kidnapping operation on a Louisiana bayou island while murders pile up. "Murder Suspect" by Frederick C. Painton concerns a woman fleeing a ship after a cryptic death, leaving newspaperman Hugh Jeffrey to solve the puzzle. "The Case of the Astral Assassin" by G. T. Fleming-Roberts features magician-detective George "Green Ghost" Chance battling an invisible, vanishing killer. Norman A. Daniels contributes "Murder Under Wraps," involving lawyer-detective Leslie Kane investigating a stolen train ticket leading to murder at a Maine estate.