10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 57: what you’re looking at

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

When the cops found Kady with the warm corpse of his victim, they wanted to nab him. But the oniy way to pin a penalty on the killer was by setting him free. For as Kady announced: Homicide’s My Right E WAS a man of about forty-five, H fairly well-dressed, but with a furtive air. He had a nervous habit of looking behind him every dozen oF 80 Steps. At the next corner he came to a dead stop, moved toward the wall of a build- ing, and stood there for five minutes. He puffed greedily on a cigarette. They’d been scarce where he came from. It - _ 55 seemed to him that he’d never get enough of them again. Finally he swung around the corner and made for a small, poorly lighted hardware store with dirty windows. It was just before nine o’cloek at night. A man with a black patch over one eye came through some filthy curtains separating the store proper from a back room. where he apparently lived, a fact nicboo () (c@) S} (F@)