10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 78: what you’re looking at

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Slaughter Epidemic By Leon Dupont Author of “Satan’s Springboard,” ete. A scalpel is the sort of thing you’d expect ina doctor's office. But the suspicious man received a knife—in a fatal thrust. And when the doctor got shot in the shoulder for his pains, Detective Gerry Evans had to find a cure for the slaughter epidemic. 66 ISTEN carefully, Evans,” P Captain Hart of the night de- tail told the broad-shouldered man before him. “I’ve just had a tele- phone call that may amount to some- thing important. Remember the Max- on Jewelry Store robbery last week?” “T was on it, captain,” Gerry Evans told him. “Lieutenant Firth sent me there with the squad. One of the guys that pulled it was shot.” “Good!” Hart said. ‘The phone call 18 IT just received was from Doctor Lasher on West End Avenue. He says two days ago a man came into his of- fice with a bullet hole in his right shoulder. It had been there for a couple of days and looked bad. Doc dressed it and then questioned the man, but he only got threats in an- swer. He told the man to come back today and he’s there now. ; “The doctor doesn’t want anything to do with him and is afraid to ques- com 1eLOOO KS aOR