10-Story Detective Magazine, April 1946

About this issue

This is the April 1946 issue of 10-Story Detective. The contents comprise nine crime and detective stories of varying lengths. "Merchant of Vengeance" by Glenn Low is a novelette featuring private investigator Tommy Slawter, who encounters a desperate woman on a bus seeking his help to prevent a man from killing her son. Slawter recognizes a sinister passenger—a grotesquely deformed individual named Masser Fane—whom he recalls from some traumatic past event, though the memory eludes him initially. The story follows Slawter's pursuit of Fane into Jake Romine's Cafe near midnight. Other stories include "A Bullet for the Groom" by William Hellmann, "Stars Die at Dawn" by Fergus Trusiow, and "The Killer and the Cavity" by Berna Morris, among multiple brief tales involving murder, revenge, and criminal investigation. The issue includes period advertisements for hospitalization insurance and consumer products alongside the fiction.