Лесли Чартерис - Manhunt. Volume 1, Number 3, March, 1953

CRAIG RICE is on hand with a new John J. Malone story and a strange, shocking ending. A former police reporter and press agent, her books include Having Wonderful Crime, Home Sweet Homicide, The Fourth Postman , and Trial By Fury. The little criminal lawyer also appears in a television series.

HAROLD Q. MASUR, a successful lawyer until he decided he’d rather present case histories in stories than in court, offers The Mourning After , a Scott Jordan story. Some of Masur’s top-notch Scott Jordan novels include Bury Me Deep, Suddenly A Corpse , and You Can’t Live Forever. His most recent book, an Inner Sanctum Mystery, is So Rich, So Lovely, And So Dead.

ROBERT PATRICK WILMOT, whose Triple-Cross marks his first appearance in Manhunt , caused a sensation with his first novel, Blood In Your Eye. The New York Times labelled him one of the best mystery writers to come along since Raymond Chandler. You’ll understand the Times’ enthusiasm when you’ve read his exciting story, Triple-Cross.

WILLIAM LINDSAY GRESHAM is perhaps best known for his novel, Nightmare Alley , which Twentieth Century-Fox brought to the screen. His stories are always tough and realistic; witness, Teaser.

RICHARD S. PRATHER, FRANK KANE, and EVAN HUNTER, no strangers to Manhunt , are back with stories featuring characters made famous in their many books. Prather, author of Bodies In Bedlam, Way of a Wanton , and many others, leads off this issue with a new Shell Scott novelette; Kane, who’s written Slay Ride, Bare Trap, Green Light for Death, etc., has a new story, Payoff; and Hunter, author of The Big Fix and others, is back with Dead Men Don’t Dream.