10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 99: what you’re looking at

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

By Leon Dupont = Tom Fargo, parole officer, hunted down a ruthless killer —and found | that he had made himself the killer’s perfect alibi. AROLE OFFICER TOM FARGO “Send in Tony Balch,” he ordered jabbed a button on the desk in the trusty. “He’s ready, isn’t he?” his prison office. Ordinarily Tom’s “He’s been ready for three hours, 2 mild gray eyes were twinkling with sir. In fact, he’s almost nuts waitin’ ¥# the good things of life, but now his for you to call him.” 3S brows were drawn down and his jaw “Get him,” Tom snapped and to 2 clamped like a vise. ~ himself he appended a thought: “If = comicbooks.com (ele)