Hollywood (Jan - Mar 1943)

E&A& mW\$ brand new, thrill-crammed, MM^F^f suspense-packed mystery smash-hit! To New Members of the Detective Book Club Phantom Iaoy By WILLIAM IRISH HIS ONLY ALIBI-A Phantom Lady I in an Orange Hat! "OUT yourself in Scott Henderson's place. You know you're not a murderer. But the electric chair doesn't know it. You know you were with another woman when your wife was strangled. But the District Attorney and the police don't know it. And YOU CAN'T PROVE IT! You met this other woman in a bar. You took her to dinner and to a play. But you didn't know her name or where she lived. Your mind had been in such a turmoil that you didn't notice anything about her — except that she was wearing a flaming orange hat. Then you got home and found three detectives waiting for you — and your wife dead in the boudoir! Where's your alibi? "Woman — orange hat" is all you can remember. You get an all-night grilling till you're too tired to remember, or think, or even care. The cops take you out to retrace your steps. Somebody mus"t remember seeing you— with the lady in the orange hat. The bartender. Sure, he saw you . . . but nobody was with you. The cab driver. He remembered picking you up and taking you to the restaurant . . . but you were alone. The headwaiter saw you, too. But he had only served one person, he said. There it was, on your table reservation and on your check. Dinner for ONE! NOBODY — not the doorman, or the ticket-taker, or the usher — had seen her! They remembered you, because you had come in after the curtain was up. They certainly would have seen a woman in an orange hat. But they swore you were alone! And now you're starting down that "last mile" — with the electric chair staring you in the face! "V^OU'LL really cheer as the impact of this thrilling, suspense-packed new mystery, PHANTOM LADY, hits you squarely between the eyes! WHAT A BOOK! PHANTOM LADY is brand new. The author's name is brand new. The book is selling everywhere for $2.00. But we don't want to sell it to you — we want to GIVE it to you — to show detective book fans the kind of stories they will get from the Detective Book Club. How This Club Brings You The Best Mysteries Each month this Club offers to its members THREE up-to-date detective books — for the usual price of only ONE.1 And EACH of the three is a complete, full-length novel. About 300 new detective books are published every year. You can't read them all. It's hard to find the best. But there's one sure guide. If it's by an author like Agatha Christie, Erie Stanley Gardner, Rex Stout, R. Austin Freeman, Frank Gruber, or Frances and Richard Lockridge, it's sure to be good! All of these and many other top-notch writers have had their books selected by the Editorial Committee of the Detective Book Club. This committee also performs another vital service for you. Each year there appears a number of real ten-strike thrillers by lesser-known authors — books like William Irish's '"Phantom Lady," for example. The Club ferrets out these "discoveries" for you so that its members will receive tomorrow's best-sellers today. The selections of the Club are ALL books that sell everywhere for $2.00 each. Yet, as a member, you get three of them (a $6.00 value) for only $1.89! You do not have to take a volume a month — you may accept as few as four a year. You Enjoy These Four Advantages ( 1 ) Every month you are offered the cream of the finest modern detective books — by the best authors. (2) You save two-thirds of the usual cost. (3) Your books are delivered right to your door. Each book is fresh, clean, unopened. It will be right at your elbow whenever you are in the mood, to read as leisurely as you please. (4) You receive volumes so well printed, so attractively bound, that month by month they will grow into a handsome library of masterpieces of modern detective fiction. Mail Coupon Nov/ For Your Free Book By accepting this FREE copy of Phantom Lady NOW, as membership gift, you will not be obligated to take every month's selection during the next 12 months. You may take as few as four during that time. You may cancel your membership whenever you wish. A description of the next month's selections will be sent with each month's book, and you may reject in advance any volume you do not want. You need send no money with the Reservation Coupon. ASSURE yourself of the privileges now being offered to members. To get this spine-chilling mystery "find," PHANTOM LADY, absolutely free, AND the current triple selection, address the coupon at once to: DETECTIVE BOOK CLUB 330 West 42nd St., New York, N. Y. Out into the night went Scott Henderson with a phantom lady! For when he went on trial for murder, bartenders, cab drivers, waiters, doormen SWORE they had seen him that night — but he had been ALONE/ SEND NO MONEY DETECTIVE BOOK CLUB, 330 West 42nd St., New York, N. Y. Please enroll me as a member and send me, FREE, "Phantom Lady," by William Irish. Also send the current triple volume, containing three complete detective books. This does not obligate me to take every monthly triple volume during the next 12 months; I may take as few as four during this period, if I so wish. It is also understood that I will receive an advance description of all forthcoming selections and that I may reject in advance any volumes that I do not wish to own. I need send no money now, but for each volume I accept I will send you only $1.89, plus a few cents postage, as complete payment, within one week after I receive my book. Name ._....._.._ Address. _... City BR State