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.