Death Freight and Other Murderous Excursions

The American Magazine was a glossy, lavishly illustrated "slick" aimed primarily at middle class women readers, filled not only with dastardly murders, but beautiful women and handsome men living the high life, the sweet spice of romance adding to the sordid criminal proceedings.

Here are four clever, sophisticated mysteries from the pages of The American Magazine written by Hugh Wheeler in the early 1950s as "Patrick Quentin." Each story takes the reader on a world tour of murder...

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