Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 25, No. 3, March 26, 1980

March 26, 1980

Dear Reader:

Detectives and criminals aren’t always just detectives and criminals — often they have outside professions, and sometimes their involvement with crime stems directly from their jobs.

In this issue, for example, you’ll meet Percy Spurlark Parker’s hotel owner/detective Bull Benson in “Lady Luck.” A sportswriter who follows a baseball team turns sleuth in “Road Trip” by Dick Stodghill. A house painter gets caught up in a death trap in “The Last One To Know” by William Bankier, and a meek bookkeeper indulges in murderous fantasies in Ernest Savage’s “How Do I Kill Thee?”

The eerie atmosphere may chill you in Jon L. Breen’s tale about a mysterious race horse called “Silver Spectre” and the unfolding of a harrowing plot will thrill you in “A Deal in Dust” by Dale L. Walker. And though none of the twelve stories in this issue is intentionally lethal, you may die laughing at the would-be heisters who bumble their way through Mary Ruth Furman’s “The Odds Are Even.”

I’ve been asked to remind you to keep writing to the Letters Editor, Susan Calderella. The address is: 380 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017.

Good reading.

Alfred Hitchcock