Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (October 1960)

Details

• journal: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (October 1960)
• issue: volume 5, number 10

Introduction

Dear Readers:

I hope the cover of this issue does not alarm you unduly. Some of you may well interpret it in this way: "Among the man's numerous sterling qualities, is generosity. To give ones shirt off one's back is not always sufficient." There will, of course, be those who will exclaim indignantly, "What! No silver platter?" And the more crudite will view the picture in depth and see great significance therein. "We must be able to adjust to a changing world," they will say. "No matter how tedious the circumstances, we must never lose our heads. This will make it possible to keep our wits about us, to have profundity at our fingertips and to estimate the weight of our thoughts."

Actually, this is a photo I had taken for my new television sponsor, the Lincoln-Mercury Division of the Ford Motor Company. I trust I have spelled all names correctly. I would not want to offend Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Mercury, or Mr. Ford. With the coming of the new television season, I am also moving to a new network. This one, quaintly enough, it known by its initials, NBC. And the head-in-the-hand photo has also been presented to it — with appropriate fanfare — "Alfred Hitchcock, Employee."

I wish you all, good mystery reading and watching.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Contents

Novelettes

• A Real, Live Murderer - Donald Honig
• Come Back, Come Back - Donald E. Westlake

Short Stories

• Ghost Story - Henry Kane
• Murder, 1990 - C. B. Gilford
• Summer Evil - Nora H. Caplan
• Destruction Is Always Arranged - Gilbert Ralston
• Con Man Par Excellence - Albert Ujcic
• Bodies Just Won't Stay Put - Tom MacPherson
• Some Suggested Homicide - Richard Hardwick
• Strictly Psycho - Bryce Walton

Notes

• Ghost Story was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 16 Skeletons from My Closet (1963)
• Bodies Just Won't Stay Put was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Once Upon a Dreadful Time (1964)
• Destruction is Always Arranged was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Happiness is a Warm Corpse (1969)
• Murder, 1990 was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Keep You Spellbound (1976), The Best of Mystery (1980) and Alfred Hitchcock's Book of Horror Stories: Book 9 (1989)
• Come Back, Come Back was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Scare You Stiff (1978) and The Best of Mystery (1980)
• A Real, Live Murderer was reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Fill You with Fear and Trembling (1980)

Magazine Credits

• Richard E. Decker - Publisher
• William Manners - Editorial Director
• Pat Hitchcock - Associate Editor
• G.F. Foster - Managing Editor
• Lisa Belknap - Associate Editor
• Meinrad Mayer - Art Director
• Barbara Remington - Illustrator

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