10-Story Detective, November 1942 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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

ill-Ride Big To By Leonard Lupton ity SUPT OP es d that was the iast word in thrills. But before the official pre- miere, there was an unscheduled rehearsal—that was the Tonight was the opening of the Dipperoo, the carnival ride : ~ last word in murder blueprints. E WERE eating supper in the What made it ten times worse was WW contour when it happened. the sudden, shrill scream as that thrill- It was fully an hour before _ ride clattered to a crescendo. It was carnival opening time and the sud- the kind of a scream that whirrs den clash and clatter of a thrill-ride through the eardrums and pierces the going into unexpected action startled brain with the cold certainty that hor- every showman on the lot. ror has struck. 34 cCoOmiclbooks