Chapter I: Front Matter

FEATURING THE BLACK HOOD!!!

_MAN OF MYSTERY!!_

HOODED DETECTIVE

_VOL. III, No. 2_

_JANUARY, 1942_

A SMASHING BLACK HOOD NOVEL

THE WHISPERING EYE By G. T. Fleming-Roberts 8

Hunted by the police ... framed for robbery and murder by the Eye,
master fiend and vicious ruler of the underworld ... loathed by
Barbara Sutton the girl who loves him ... the BLACK HOOD had to
face the blazing purgatory of this murder master's guns to win back
Barbara's love and clear himself of the framed charges

SIX ACTION PACKED SHORT STORIES

CANDIDATE FOR A COFFIN By T. W. Ford 42

Wilson Lamb cuddled his automatic to play "Mr. Death" and fingered
little Louis Engel for coffin cargo. But when he pulled the
trigger, Whisper the gun-cobra from Chi spilled out of Doom's
deck....

ONE HUNDRED BUCKS PER STIFF By J. Lloyd Conrich 52

Mr. Peck was dead ... the papers said so. Yet Mr. Peck performed
his own autopsy and saved eight men from death.

DEATH IS DEAF By Cliff Campbell 60

Big Sid couldn't understand it, and he was a smart monkey. He had
cased this job himself, personal. Had cooked up the scheme for
pulling it off and had spent a good two weeks laying the
groundwork. Yet here he was locked up in the county jail with the
hot squat waiting to claim him....

THREE GUESSES By David Goodis 65

Detective Frey came in and saw Duggin lying dead, and he figured
he'd go out and do big things. He went out and threw his weight
around. Doing big things? You figure that one out.

THE COP WAS A COWARD By Wilbur S. Peacock 73

Johnny Burke had the making of a fine cop in him ... but there was
something strange about Johnny Burke--something mighty strange.

A DINNER DATE WITH MURDER By Harry Stein 86

They had expected spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner, but were
served instead, hot lead, with a little bit of blood on the
side....

TWO TRUE FACT DETECTIVE SHORTS

THE STRANGE CASE OF WILLIAM LONG By Roy Giles 81

ARTISTIC MURDERS MISFIRE By Mat Rand 90

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THE WHISPERING EYE

A BRAND NEW BLACK HOOD NOVEL

by G. T. FLEMING-ROBERTS

Hunted by the police ... framed for robbery and murder by the EYE,
master fiend and vicious ruler of the underworld ... loathed by
Barbara Sutton, the girl who loves him ... The BLACK HOOD had to
face the blazing purgatory of this murder master's guns to win back
Barbara's love and clear himself of the framed charges.