10-Story Detective Magazine, April 1946 — page 65: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Murder in Miniature By Paul Dennis O’Connor Nelson Merrick’s fian- | cee was alesgirl in a weird doll shop whose customers were strictly Sing Sing. And when one of them got bumped off by a doll’s dagger, Nelson had to buy in on @ man- sized struggle to save his girl from the horror of the Nd homicidal puppets. Nelson Merrick observed, gazing around the little shop. “Well when you consider the usual junkstores down here in this artists’ colony, it’s different, at least.” Its display window bore Old English script, in gold, Martin Clayfxs, Un- usual Dolls. It was draped in black vel- vet and exhibited—under a tall glass bell—one lone doll who was possibly Marie Antoinette or the Empress Eu- genie, Nelson didn’t know or care which. ‘S THIS is where you work!’ COmiclooolk<s CO