Monday, November 11, 2024

Street & Smith's Mystery Magazine Feb 1940

Street & Smith's Mystery Magazine
Feb 1940, vol 5 no 4


Street & Smith ran a bunch of series characters in Mystery Magazine - a full look here https://thepulp.net/pulpsuperfan/2017/04/24/a-look-at-street-smiths-crime-busters/

The Death Lady by William G. Bogart

Townspeople drop dead when the bell tower strikes 13 and the mysterious Miss Death appears. The Scooby-Doo conclusion involves by hypnosis and undetectable poison gas.

Jobs of Jeopardy by Frank Gruber

Jim Strong breaks up an employment agency racket. He gets knocked out twice, and is unconscious as the baddies are dispatched off page.

Double Trouble by Theodore Tinsley

A Carrie Cashin story - kind of a Remington Steele set up with Cashin running the PI business with a male front. Cashin runs across actor impersonators and leads to a dubious treasure in a mansion plot. Way too many exclamation points.

You Can't Figure Women by Ned O'Doherty

A customs agent finds a severed head in a case of scotch and uncovers a French dress smuggling ring.

Death on Silvery Wings by Norman A. Daniels

Neil Morrison of the New York Aerial Police busts up a gang using airplanes as getaway vehicles.

Murders Aren't Nice by W.T. Ballard

Red Drake is a wanted man who gets mixed up in a kidnapping.

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