Suspense Magazine, Summer 1951

Catalog Note This issue contains five fiction pieces: "Perfectly Calm Murder" by F. Hugh Herbert, "Elusive Witness" by Georges Simenon, "Operation Peep" by John Wyndham, "Criminal at Large" by Larry Holden, and "Blood Will Tell" by Nathaniel Weyl. The primary featured work is John Wyndham's "Operation Peep," a science-fiction satire in which mysterious fragmentary body parts—heads, arms, legs, torsos—begin appearing in various urban locations, passing through solid walls and objects. The protagonist and his skeptical girlfriend Sally, along with a newspaper-clipping collector named Jimmy, investigate the phenomenon. They theorize about teleportation technology gone awry. After witnessing a girl who is Sally's exact double emerging from a brick wall before vanishing, the narrator grows alarmed. Public panic escalates as newspapers shift from mockery to serious debate about the cause—teleportage, molecular assembly, or supernatural intrusion. The OCR text cuts off mid-narrative, preventing confirmation of resolution.