5 Detective Novels Magazine Cover — page 77: what you’re looking at

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

Wings of the ark Ange He motioned with the pistol for them to get out The runaway heiress gave Sam Mead a hard time on a snatch deal A Novel by WILLIAM HOPSON Chapter ! AM Mead sat in the shade of his small sheet-iron office, scowling out across the white length of the two run- ways he’d cleared out of greasewood and cacti-studded desert wastes. He pulled the brim of the baseball cap down a little further over the dark glasses and in- stinctively kept glancing at the sky above the airport. Toward Mexico, forty miles away. Only one of his three planes, a four- passenger cabin job with a high wing, stood by. One light trainer had been stolen three months before, swallowed up Copyright, £947, Better Publications, Inc., originally published July, 1947, G-Men Detective 77 comiclooolkks (C@)