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.