Detective Weekly No. 340

This issue of *Detective Weekly* (No. 340, August 26, 1939) features the complete detective story "Simon Kern Pays in Full," in which Sexton Blake confronts the criminal "Waldo the Wonder-Man." The narrative opens with Kern experiencing supernatural terror from ghostly apparitions of his murdered partners. The main serial follows Blake and his assistant Tinker as they respond to a mysterious early-morning telephone call from an unnamed woman reporting a death by lightning on Wimbledon Common during an overnight thunderstorm. The caller insists Blake view the body before police discovery, hinting at unusual significance. The issue also includes a true-crime article, "The Dog Knew," recounting a Baltimore murder case where a distressed dog's behavior led police to a dismembered body and the arrest of Frank Marco for the killing of red-haired Evelyn Rice.