Private Detective Stories, April 1941

This April 1941 issue of Private Detective Stories (Vol. 8, No. 5) contains a complete novel and six shorter detective stories. The lead novel is "The Old Greek Game" by Wallace Kayton, featuring protagonist Tim Sloan, a man susceptible to beautiful women who encounters Emma, a woman equally skilled at manipulation. The shorter works include: "Danger Delivered Co." by Robert Leslie Bellem (a failed movie stunt turns to murder); "Murder Makes a Difference" by Donald Latham (about Slade protecting someone named Gladys); "Corpse Clue" by Clark Nelson (detective Scanlon investigates while preventing a second murder); "Rog Bat-Pog" by Walton Grey (involves a woman swimming to an island); "Blonde Informant" by Paul Hamma (four men with murderous intent); and "Tableau for Fright-Wig" by James H. S. Moynahan (featuring Madame Zeno and a corpse). The issue also includes the serial "Death Rides the Air" by William Sutherland, describing murder aboard a transport plane with four suspects.