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Super Detective, March 1946

· March 1946

Super Detective, March 1946
This publication is an issue of a detective/mystery pulp magazine. The featured novel is "Stare-Out," by Roger Torrey (pages 5-29), concerning detective Shamus Mullaney discovering a murder setup. The shorter fiction includes "Don't Change Hearses" by Robert Leslie Bellem, involving a corpse and a phonograph; "Dark Corridor" by Elizabeth Starr, about Steve Drake planning vengeance while dying; "Bell-Bottom Trousers" by Lew Merrill, a murder-frame scheme; "Pat's Hand" by David Carver, regarding revenge complications; and "Mab Sue" by Ray Cummings, presented as a puzzle-like situation. The issue also contains a factual article, "Brazil Curbed Nazi Gangsters," detailing German efforts to purchase diamonds from Brazil during World War II after depleting European sources. The remainder consists of mail-order advertisements for educational correspondence courses in radio repair, electronics, and technical trades.

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