Detective Weekly No. 251

About this issue

This issue of Detective Weekly (December 4, 1937) contains three anecdotal pieces and the opening installment of a Sexton Blake adventure. "Christmas Box" describes an Ottawa woman who receives a chocolate box containing $868 in cash instead of candy—the result of a confectioner's misguided hiding spot for his money during a robbery scare. "Fatted Calf" presents a Hungarian legal dispute over a gold watch discovered inside a slaughtered calf, with four competing claimants: the finder, the butcher, the farmer, and the pasture owner. A third piece humorously recounts a Grand Forks, North Dakota grocer's newspaper plea to burglars requesting they use the front door rather than breaking windows. The issue's major feature is "Out of the Night," an extra-long Sexton Blake story by Warwick Jardine involving a mysterious man stranded at isolated Skarr Hall after destroying a bridge, where he encounters suspicious guests including a Spanish-named Torres and a German-scarred Peterson.