The Saint Detective Magazine, January 1957

# Museum Catalog Entry

The Saint Detective Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 1957), features detection fiction and a novella. "Murder to Music," a short novel by Fredric Brown, opens the issue: a narrator named Ralph Oliver recounts his long friendship with Danny Bushman—both former jazz musicians who left the profession at thirty to co-own a used car lot. Oliver arrives at Danny's apartment for a night out only to discover him badly beaten unconscious on the floor. The assault's motive remains unclear, setting up the central mystery. Other contents include "The Export Trade" by Leslie Charteris featuring the Saint; "Death in the Valley" by Clifford Knight; "The Crime in Nobody's Room" by Carter Dickson; "The One-Eyed Engineer" by George Fielding Eliot; plus stories by Veronica Parker Johns, J. Francis McComas, Samuel Selvon, and Winston Marks. The issue includes editorial commentary on musicians and contemporary music culture.