Manly Wade Wellman

This issue’s cover photograph first appeared on the cover of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in August 1949.

True Crime Detective Vol. 2 No. 3 Summer 1952
Contents Page
John Bartlow Martin per “Gene” “I Was a Successful Burglar”
Will Ourslet & Jerome Barry “Winston Churchill’s Strangest Case”
Edward D. Radin “Catspaw”
Howard Whitman “The Crime of Rape”
Morris Markey “The Mysterious Death of Starr Faithful”
Manly Wade Wellman “Hex Marks the Murder”
Here’s the Answer (readers’ crime-related Q&A)
Stewart H. Holbrook “Cleopatra of Puget Sound”
F. Tennyson Jesse “Mother and Son”
Joseph F. Dinneen “Murder in Massachusetts”

Publisher: Lawrence E. Spivak
Editor: Edward D. Radin
Managing Editor: Robert P. Mills
General Manager: Joseph W. Ferman
Art Director: George Salter
Cover: Bill Stone
5.5” x 7.75” 128 pages 35¢

“For a long time I wished for a magazine that would present true crime cases in a straightforward, exciting way—without sensationlism and trick photography. When True Crime Detective came along I had my wish!”
–Ralph Bellamy, noted stage and screen actor

True Crime Detective, The Magazine of True Crime Cases Vol. 1 No. 4 October 1951
Contents
Dr. Richard H. Hoffmann as told to Will Oursler “The Untold Story of Martha”
Walter Winchell “Behind Lepke’s Surrender”
Henry Jordan “Paris Dead End”
Rupert Hughes “Murder Solves a Murder”
Ray Brennan “Somebody Knows”
Edward D. Radin “Locked-Room Rendeszvous”
Manly Wade Wellman “Bender’s Orchard”
Courtney Riley Cooper “Spawn of Shoebox Annie”
W.T. Brannon “Mr. Con Man”
John Bartlow Martin “The Ring and the Conscience”

Publisher: Lawrence E. Spivak
Editor: Edward D. Radin
Managing Editor: Robert P. Mills
General Manager: Joseph W. Ferman
Art Director: George Salter
5.5” x 7.75” 128 pages 35¢

True Crime Detective Summer 1952

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