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Private Detective Stories, March 1942
Private Detective Stories, March 1942 This issue of *Private Detective Stories* (Vol. 10, No. 4) contains detective and crime fiction. The feature novel, "Murder's Never Easy" by Roger Torrey, follows two detectives investigating a crime wave targeting wealthy women. "Murder in the Making" by Dale Boyd is a novelette about a woman described as "a murder waiting to be committed." Short stories include "Corpse Cross" by Robert Leslie Bellem, involving questions of loyalty; "The Game" by C.A.M. Donne about destiny and a charmed life; "Killer Beware" by Ralph Carle, featuring a woman providing an alibi for a vicious killer; and an untitled story attributed to John Wayne about women with an unspecified quality beyond the typical. The magazine is published by Trojan Publishing Corp. at fifteen cents per issue.