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HIS week's special, No. X-7 by Peter Campbell', is exactly like our regular cryptograms
except that divisions between words are
not shown in the cipher, the grouping by sixes
being merely an arbitrary arrangement. Answers
to this cipher will not be credited in our Solvers'
Club, but let us know what luck you have with
it! The solution will be given in two weeks.
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26a-On Hallowe'en, great owls and bats,
and funny-looking old black cats, are out to
frighten girls and boys, who know not how
to stop their noise I
261DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY is packed
full of thrilling fiction, facts, and features
including this fine cipher department!
262Coronado, Spanish explorer, sought
the golden treasure of the "Seven Cities oi
fortune,
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H E Patent Leather Kid stepped from the car. The pistol of the holdup man jabbed against his back. He was slated to be the fall-guy
in a series of million dollar robberies. He would be arrested, exposed,
ridiculed. Yet he dared not resist until
Only the Patent Leather Kid and Erie Stanley Gardner could have
figured the next, the amazing move which left the Kid in possession of a
huge star sapphire. -That gem was the key to the million dollar jewel robberies and a murder! Once he had it the Kid knew how safes protected by
the most modem burglar alarm systems could be opened as though by magic.
Read how the Kid solved the riddle of the five ferocious fall-guys, and the
cat that yowled when murder was to be done. Don't miss
A Novelette by Erie St
" i r O R R O R haunted that beautiful girl who locked herself in a hotel
I suite. Her face was veiled. She refused to open her door, to admit
any one but the waiter. For a murderer sought hera killer who
had left one girl, a headless corpse. The fiend -slipped through the locked
doors. In darkness his fingers clutched the girl's throat.
" Lovely little head!" whispered a gruesome voice. " Too beautiful to
be lost . . . Well, it shan't be . . ."
And in the morning a second headless corpse mocked detectives^until
Toby Lane, the reporter whose keen wits could fit a face to those headless
bodies, faced the killer in a barricaded room far underground beneath the
streets of New York.
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that weakens you!
Don't take a laxative that is
offered as a cure-all a treatment
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have to keep on increasing the. dose
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THE LAXATIVE THAT DOES NOT
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You take Ex-Lax just when you
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habit. You don't, have to keep on
increasing , the dose to get results.
Ex-Lax is effective but it is mild.
It acts gently yet thoroughly. I t
works over-night without over-action.
Children like to t a k e Ex-Lax
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to take Ex-Lax because they have
found' it to be thoroughly effective-^
without the disagreeable aftereffects of harsh, nasty-tastitig laxatives.
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