A productive but unexciting day. Took the van in for inspection. (It passed.) Came home and wrote 20 pages.

Currently reading "Murder in Pictures", a Candid Camera Kid story by John L. Benton (Norman Daniels) from the June 1939 issue of DETECTIVE NOVELS. It's reprinted in BEHIND THE MASK #53, published by Fading Shadows Inc. This is the first Candid Camera Kid story, in fact. I've read later ones reprinted in other issues of BEHIND THE MASK and liked them quite a bit. The hero is two-fisted news photographer Jerry Wade, who's tough despite being only 5'6". The plots of these stories often are far-fetched even for the pulps, but the pace is really fast and Jerry and his reporter girlfriend Christine Stuart are likable characters. It seems to me that they would have been perfect for B-movies, but I don't think any were ever made based on this series.