Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (March 1968)


March 1968

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journal: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (March 1968)
issue: volume 13, number 3

Introduction

Dear Reader:

If we may correlate a dog's age to that of man, it occured to me that months of the year can be aged similarly as an indication of what to expect, weather-wise and crime-wise.

Allowing for an age of six for each month, we personify March, for example, at age 18 — capricious, troubled. June is 36 — stable, but anxious to get on with it. September, at 54, is mellow but given to fits of temper. December, aged 72, is liable for anything or nothing.

However, nature and vice being what they are, I fear this will not go beyond the stage of being mere clue to behavior — just as age is with people...

While advance knowledge of what transpires herein is prudently restricted and the reader is kept in suspense, there is coincident instruction on gypsy life, zoology, farmers' daughters, nice old ladies, litter pitchers with big ears, Chinatown, invisible roomers and sculpture, among others.

Many more enlightening subjects will continue to be unobtrusively offered in the coming months, so obtain your registration forms on either Page 99 or 160. You will never be late for class.

— Alfred Hitchcock

A Place to Visit - Stephen Marlowe
The Parlor - Miel Tanburn
A Quiet Night - Bill Pronzini
The Midnight Train - John Lutz
The Tenth Trouble - Leo P. Kelley
After the Fact - Edward D. Hoch
Bobbyling - June Wetherell
Fat Jow and Chance - Robert Alan Blair
Joint Tenancy - Robert W. Alexander
Smokey - W. Sherwood Hartman
A Friendly Exorcise - Talmage Powell
A Familiar Victory - Elijah Ellis
Duel in the Center - C.B. Gilford

Novelette

Fanna's Foundry - Jay Bailey

Notes

A Friendly Exorcise was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Behind the Death Ball (1974)
A Familiar Victory was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Grave Business (1975)
A Place to Visit was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Rolling Gravestones (1971) and Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Make You Weak in the Knees (1981)

Magazine Credits

Richard E. Decker - Publisher
Gladys Foster Decker - Editorial Director
Ernest M. Hutter - Editor
Pat Hitchcock - Associate Editor
Marguerite Blair Deacon - Art Director

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