Enloquecidos por el terror (Maddened by Terror)

Catalog Description *Enloquecidos por el terror* (Maddened by Terror), issue 202 of the Selección Terror pulp series, presents a hardboiled detective narrative by Ada Coretti. Detective Larry Lemon, thirty-four, the city's most sought private investigator, is interrupted from a social engagement when client Jennifer Bacall arrives with urgent business. She reveals that her aunt Cornelia, wife of millionaire William Pulmmer, was brutally murdered twenty-five years prior—found with a crushed skull, amputated nose, broken teeth, and severe wounds to throat, heart, and abdomen. The killer, Elisabeth Wood, was convicted and imprisoned; she is now about to be released. Jennifer reports that her uncle William has grown increasingly nervous and fearful in recent weeks, presumably dreading Wood's revenge. The narrative includes an extended flashback to young Larry's childhood encounter with both Wood and the murderer—a hunchbacked ex-physician named Dr. Lawton—who had abducted Wood after she rejected his bizarre advances regarding her skin, displaying the flayed corpse of another victim in his castle laboratory before police arrested him.