Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (March 1964)

cover by Marguerite Blair Deacon

Details

• journal: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (March 1964)
• issue: volume 9, number 3

Introduction

Dear Friends:

As St. Valentine's Day bows its lace-paper embroidered head, and March wings its windy way toward the vernal equinox, I feel called upon to add a few cogent remarks about this great Christian martyr of the Third Century. In all innocence he really put the modern male on the spot. Comparing Valentine's Day recipients' remarks the other night I learned some wives, when receiving expensive gifts from expansive husbands, accept them graciously while others are incited to determine the motive for this largesse.

Back in the Third Century husbands seldom gave their wives tokens of appreciation, from what I've read. We've learned by way of Shakespeare that some of these chaps were far ahead, in mayhem and murder, than are the dilettantes of our times. Still in this issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine it is obvious some of these early wielders of wickedness may have been reincarnated. Even the ladies of an earlier day such as Lucretia, and Xanthippe, would pale at some present day plots. For instance, anyone with an appetite for terror might try THE INTARSIA BOX by August Derleth as an aperitif.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Contents

Short Stories

• The Price of Fame - Richard Deming
• Between Two Women - C.B. Gilford
• High Card Deals - Max Van Derveer
• The Pink Envelope - Allen Kim Lang
• An Exercise in Insurance - James Holding
• Experience is Helpful - Rog Phillips
• To Skin a Cat - Elijah Ellis
• Looking for George - Anthony Marsh
• Just Following Orders - George Snyder
• This Day's Evil - Jonathan Craig
• The Patient - David Blinick
• The Glass Wall - Mitchell F. Jayne
• The Power to Kill - Philip Ketchum

Novelette

• The Adventure of The Intarsia Box - August Derleth

Notes

• Experience Is Helpful was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Get Me to the Wake On Time (1970)
• The Price of Fame was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Rolling Gravestones (1971)
• The Adventure of the Intarsia Box was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Death Can Be Beautiful (1972) and Alfred Hitchcock's Your Share of Fear (1982)
• This Day's Evil was reprinted in This Day's Evil: Alfred Hitchcock (1967), Alfred Hitchcock's Happiness is a Warm Corpse (1969) and Alfred Hitchcock's Grave Suspicions (1984)

Magazine Credits

• Richard E. Decker - Editor and Publisher
• Victoria S. Benham - Associate Editor
• G.F. Foster - Managing Editor
• Pat Hitchcock - Associate Editor
• Ned Benham - Associate Editor
• Marguerite Blair Deacon - Art Director

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