I've read several of the mystery novels featuring magician/detective George Chance that were published in this pulp, and they're pretty good, as you'd expect from author G.T. Fleming-Roberts, who contributed some excellent Secret Agent X novels earlier in his career. This issue also features stories by Hugh B. Cave and Ray Cummings, so it must have been a pretty good one.
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It's been a long time since I read this series, but I remember it fondly. This particular story was one of the best. The mystery was about a comic book or comic strip writer, who writes about a bird-like monster (I believe), and supposedly he's killed by the very creature he created. But Fleming-Roberts had a way of bringing in deep secrets and twists to his stories, that go far from the surface of the crime.
Never read one of these. I'll have to try and get hold of some.
How was the Ray Cummings story? I've always been a fan of his, thanks to those crazy Ace covers (remember Wandl the Invader?).
I don't actually have this issue, Sean, just scavenged the image off the great Fictionmags Index. I haven't read that much by Cummings, but I've enjoyed what I have read. Don't recall Wandl the Invader. I'll have to go see if I can find a picture of the cover somewhere.
http://bookscans.com/Publishers/ace/images/aceD497-1.jpg
Yes, indeed, that is a fine, goofy cover. I want to read that one!
I ordered a copy of WANDL THE INVADER, ought to have some comments on it in due time.
WANDL was the sequel to BRIGANDS OF THE MOON, also published by Ace but with a less wacky cover. An Ace Double, WANDL was backed by the much better I SPEAK FOR EARTH by "Keith Woodcott (John Brunner).
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