15 Story Detective, April 1950

This April 1950 issue of the pulp magazine features thirteen crime stories across various lengths. The lead novella is Burt Sims's "Two's Company—Three's a Shroud," about a private operative named Morgan who poses as a fire inspector while investigating a murder involving a couple. John D. MacDonald's novelette "Pigskin Patsy" involves a fullback named McBride caught up in a fixed-game scandal. Other novelettes include Donn Mullally's "You Only Die Twice," featuring George Ball framed for his ex-wife's murder, and Albert Simmons's "Murder Spins the Disc," in which a disc jockey named White becomes entangled in murder. The issue includes nine shorter detective stories with titles like "Corpse's Comeback" and "Mayhem with a Match," authored by writers including Harmon Bellamy, John Kritt, Webb Garrison, and Harold Helfer. A feature story, "Please Pass the Poison" by Johannes L. Bouma, recounts the case of Dr. Erich Muenter, who poisoned his pregnant wife with arsenic and later assumed a false identity as a professor named Frank Hope.