The Saint Detective Magazine, February 1957

The Saint Detective Magazine, February 1957

This issue features editor Leslie Charteris's serial "The Gentle Ladies," in which Simon Templar (the Saint) is drawn into a suspicious case involving Mr. Alton Powls while at a Santa Barbara church bazaar. Kathleen Holland, a real estate agent, details her concerns about Powls's interest in her elderly acquaintance Miss Florence Warshed and her two adult nieces, an insular trio running a needlework shop in Montecito. The issue also includes Christopher Bush's "Murder of a Maharajah," Maysie Greig's "Walk-Up to Fear," Arthur Somers Roche's "For the Good of the City," John Creasey's "Betrayal of the Hopeless" (set in Bombay), Lawrence G. Blochman's "Open All Night," Hal Ellson's "This Is For You," Dorothy Quick's "Time for Murder," Dal Stivens's "Mr. Heed Didn't Gamble," and V. E. Thiessen's "The Eye Mark," along with a crime column by editorial director Hans Stefan Santesson.