The Saint Detective Magazine, March 1954

Saint Detective Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 6 (March 1954) This anthology issue features twelve detective and mystery stories edited by Leslie Charteris. Leading pieces include Charteris's own "The Pearls of Peace," in which the Saint pursues a trivial theft near La Paz, Mexico involving oyster pearls and a woman named Jocelyn Ormond searching for her ex-husband Ned Yarn's discovered treasure. Agatha Christie contributes "The Coming of Mr. Quin," Dorothy L. Sayers presents "The Fountain Plays," and Leslie Ford offers a Colonel Primrose novelet, "The Strangled Witness." Frank Kane's "Bullets Back to Back" features detective Johnny Liddell. Additional contributions include Hugh Walpole's "I'll Show You My Tarn," William R. Cox's "No Stars in My Crown," and stories by George Harmon Coxe, Tom Lake, Edwin Baird, William Fay, and Milward Kennedy. The editorial emphasizes the issue's mix of established and new mystery fiction.