5 Detective Novels Magazine Cover — page 10: what you’re looking at

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

Death all around me A Novel by NORMAN DANIELS Chapter | T WAS one of those West Side blocks which had been slipping for years. As yet, it hadn’t quite reached the pusheart-and-sidewalk-store-display stage, but it was slightly beyond the baby carriage, lounging men and howling kids stage. In five or ten ‘more years it would be down as far as it could go, and the local ward heeler would start campaigning for subsidized housing. Johnny Craig knew he had killed a man, yet four people swore he hadn’‘t. What was this screwy frame-up in reverse? CONMUG NOO S (Cc ©)