10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 97: what you’re looking at

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Sharpshooter— Captain Roger Norvale, big-game hunier, was a dead shot. But he was lured among the harmless, stuffed figures of his jungle trophies to face a stalking killer—without powder and bullets. a strange feeling of disqui- etude as he stepped from the train. Even when stalking big game in the denseness of the tropical jungle, he had never been aware of the pre- cise sensation of foreboding that now assailed him. The train had hardly stopped to al- low him to descend to the darkness of the deserted platform before the con- ductor waved his lantern. It pulled out of the station, leaving him in solitude. R”:: NORVALE experienced 95 Author of “The Devil’s Coronet,” ete, ‘ithout Bullets By Paul Adams o> Valley Junction was one of those stations that are marked with an as- terisk in the time tables; a footnote explaining the asterisk toe the effect that: “Train stops to discharge pas- sengers only.” Uncultivated land, thickly over- grown with rank grass, stretched on both sides. To the west a dirt road led along an upward slope of the terrain to the low hill upon which sat the estate of Donald Westen. Norvale, in the infrequent periods . - pw Dy Pl ee tee ell Rg Aegee -c€omicbooks.co Ley * et Nd OLD LTT yy ib rhe iy Pi viel 2,, é COT yaa ] 5! ne, , (at OPT PONE ee Me Bo on f uty se , , Was Tae 1 ; \ 1 teu