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¢