The Saint Mystery Magazine, October 1963

This October 1963 issue of The Saint Mystery Magazine features stories by established mystery writers. Leslie Charteris's lead story, "The Russian Prisoner," concerns Simon Templar meeting a woman named Irma Jorovitch who seeks his help rescuing her father, a Soviet physicist at Leningrad University. The professor, permitted to attend a disarmament conference in Geneva, was supposed to defect through the Swiss embassy, but was instead captured by Soviet secret police and taken to a heavily guarded Soviet compound on a Swiss lake. Authorities refuse intervention, claiming diplomatic immunity. Additional stories by Cornell Woolrich ("The Night of February 17, 1924"), Judith Merril, Julian Symons, Bruno Fischer, and Richard Deming round out the issue. The editor's column discusses literary criticism and the magazine's commitment to quality mystery fiction.