Ladrones de tumbas

This Spanish-language pulp magazine, Ladrones de Tumbas (Tomb Robbers) by W. Sampas, published by Ediciones Toray in 1961, presents a crime mystery beginning with cemetery guard Fedor Poblack's discovery of irregularities during his midnight rounds. Initially noticing three extra corpses in the morgue than recorded, Fedor later finds the Coleman family mausoleum—containing valuable jewelry and gold—has been ransacked. Thieves have broken open urns and looted items from the deceased. Fedor's wife Mary initially disbelieves him, even recounting the corpses herself and finding only eleven as documented. However, upon visiting the violated mausoleum, she confirms the theft. Mary calls police, threatening Fedor with consequences if he loses his position. The narrative then shifts to Police Chief Stephan Wade, a capable forty-year-old lawman, conferring with subordinates Clarke and another officer about their investigation's lack of progress. The story establishes a systematic grave robbery operation targeting a cemetery's valuable burial contents.