10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 7: what you’re looking at

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a el eo By Norman A. Daniels zk**k k 3 Amid the screaming bullets of Tarawa a dying pal gave Marine Dick McKay a message for his home-town D.A. Yet | all McKay’s hot-lead learning was needed when he hit the quiet burg. For organized murder was waiting to rub out the dispatch and make McKay homesick for the Pacific hell. ak Ke Kw, p and McKay gave a running cleared th to see. Two people for whom he bore a message from the dead. From Alex Gar- rick, the seemingly underfed, eternally seasiek, helH-roaring, fighting man who’d gone down wrth the first attacking wave of Maries who stormed Tarawa. McKay didn’t like to think about it. He’d Hiadsmany friends in that detail of Marines, antl now his friends were ‘very limited, Most.of them’had died, The doc- tors on the hospital ship never had fig- ured why Corporal McKay hadn’t died, too. By aH rules of medicine he should have. <r 88 -