The Saint Detective Magazine, October 1955

This October 1955 issue features mystery and detective fiction edited by Leslie Charteris. The cover story, "The Body in the Rockpit" by Rufus King, opens with a woman named Stella Huntering, a published author of romance novels, meeting a bartender named Phil in a Florida tavern. Stella is staying at a beachfront house called The Rockpit while working on a new book; she and Phil develop a romantic connection during skin-diving outings. Additional stories include W. Somerset Maugham's "A Man of Conscience," exploring murder psychology; Charteris's true-crime account "The Red Fox of the Cumberlands"; Lawrence G. Blochman's "A Perfect Target" set in Japan; Leslie Ford's "Death Stops at a Tourist Camp"; and Thomas Walsh's "Peaceful in the Country." The issue also contains stories by Sax Rohmer, E.C.R. Lorac, Herbert Harris, and William MacHarg, combining established literary names with pulp detective fiction conventions.