Detective Story Magazine

Detective Story Magazine, Vol. LXXXII, No. 4 (March 20, 1926) This issue contains one novelette, two serials, eight short stories, one article, and miscellaneous true crime features. The featured novelette "Sparkling Danger" is by Edward Leonard. The two continuing serials are "The Moving Room" by John Jay Chichester (part one of six) and "The Forbidden Door" by Herman Landon (part two of six). "The Moving Room" follows Baird Morrow, a man caught between his marriage to the old-fashioned Thelma and his passionate affair with the beautiful and alluring Corrine Drummond in Greenwich Village. When Corrine presses him to seek divorce, Baird becomes emotionally overwhelmed and conflicted. The eight short stories include pieces by Leonard Falkner, Kenneth Duane Whipple, and Thomas Topham among others. The nonfiction article "The Hotel Sneak Returns" is by Edward H. Smith. Crime articles cover topics including convict legal education, forgery cases, and various criminal captures and executions.