Private Detective Stories features Robert Leslie Bellem's Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. In this issue are three of his stories: Murder by Proxy; Drunk, Disorderly, and Dead; and Syndicate Snatch. We round out this issue with Vance Miller's "The Clue of the Hunted Vampire", Tom Jennings' "Jewels of Murder", Ellery Watson Calder's "Wire Trap", L. S. Worth's "Marijuana Vice Trap", Alvin Yudkoff's "Trail of Corpses", Ray Cummings' "Fate Plays Postman", Robert A. Garron's "A Straw for the Thirsty", and a 2-page Betty Blake comic.