Super Detective, January 1946

Super Detective Magazine Content This issue of *Super Detective* contains three crime and mystery stories. The featured novel, "Two Little Men" by Roger Torrey, involves an unnamed narrator whose office girl becomes targeted by unknown antagonists, prompting him to take action. W. T. Ballard contributes the novelette "Mary Took a Little Lam," a detective story centered on black pearls that trigger a chain of murders, including a corpse discovered beneath the protagonist's bed. Short fiction includes "September Peaches" by Lew Merrill, about mysterious death blooming alongside peaches; "Guys Who Kill People" by Camford Sheavely, depicting a small-time criminal forced into the larger criminal underworld and murder; "Man by the Road" by Ray Cummings, featuring a cryptic figure alongside an escape route; and "After Ninety Years" by N. V. Murray, involving secret-keeping. The magazine emphasizes hardboiled detective fiction and crime narratives aimed at pulp genre readers.