The Saint Detective Magazine, September 1957

This September 1957 issue of The Saint Detective Magazine contains mystery and adventure fiction edited by Leslie Charteris. The lead story is "The Good Medicine" by Charteris himself, featuring Simon Templar discussing a woman named Elise Ashville—owner of a patent medicine company (Ashville Pharmacal Products) who made her fortune producing largely ineffective remedies like Juven-Aids, Verval Tonique, and Dreemicreem. The issue also includes "Mr. Smith Kicks the Bucket" by Fredric Brown, Sax Rohmer's "The Headless Mummies" about his criminologist Morris Klaw, Richard Sale's "Ghosts Make No Noise" featuring Daffy Dill, Louis Golding's "The Vandyck Beard," August Derleth's "Adventure of the Little Hangman" (a Solar Pons story), Aaron Marc Stein's "Battle of Wits," and additional fiction by other authors. The editorial discusses the significance of character names in fiction.