10-Story Detective, March 1941 — page 61: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Daggers of Doom When Detective Gil Fenton pocketed five grand to take on the é jade collector’s case, little did he think that he was toting | crimson currency. 5 7 iv eae pees * ports | open 4 cena cones anapost Marty Lyle HE body of the dead China- man was the first thing that Gil Fenton saw: when he came into the library of the wealthy Stephen Wayne. Next to the China- man was another lumpy form. The man from the medical ex- aminer’s office was just starting to work on the body of the little yellow man. He was not pleasant to look at; he had been shot through the head, 59 and the bullet had come out in back. Gil turned an inquiring glance at the others. | Stacy, of homicide, was sitting in a straight-backed ehair and talking confidentially to Stephen Wayne. Wayne, the well-known collector of jade, seemed to be all broken up. Not so, Stacy. The homicide man was smoking one of Wayne’s ex- pensive cigars with evident relish. COMICLOO <S) CO