10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 9: what you’re looking at

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

The Corpse at the Carnival By Dwight V. Babcock Author of “The Jitterbug Murder,” ete. Suddenly the festive beach resort became frozen with foreboding. For Death rode the Dragon Slide that night. And Investigator Mitl- ard discovered that tke girl he loved was coasting on the slippery track of Satan’s juggernaut. a RS hen ee CHAPTER I DEATH ON THE DRAGON SLIDE HRIS MILLARD leaned against the bar in a doorless beer hall on Ocean Front and looked out at the passersby. The throngs moving along the boardwalk were like the shifting waters of a churning river, flowing toward the entrance to the amusement pier, moy- COMmmicooOokS Conn