Produced by Greg Weeks, John Betancourt, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net FEATURING THE BLACK HOOD!!! _MAN OF MYSTERY!!_ HOODED DETECTIVE _VOL. III, No. 2_ _JANUARY, 1942_ A SMASHING BLACK HOOD NOVEL THE WHISPERING EYE By G. T. Fleming-Roberts 8 Hunted by the police ... framed for robbery and murder by the Eye, master fiend and vicious ruler of the underworld ... loathed by Barbara Sutton the girl who loves him ... the BLACK HOOD had to face the blazing purgatory of this murder master's guns to win back Barbara's love and clear himself of the framed charges SIX ACTION PACKED SHORT STORIES CANDIDATE FOR A COFFIN By T. W. Ford 42 Wilson Lamb cuddled his automatic to play "Mr. Death" and fingered little Louis Engel for coffin cargo. But when he pulled the trigger, Whisper the gun-cobra from Chi spilled out of Doom's deck.... ONE HUNDRED BUCKS PER STIFF By J. Lloyd Conrich 52 Mr. Peck was dead ... the papers said so. Yet Mr. Peck performed his own autopsy and saved eight men from death. DEATH IS DEAF By Cliff Campbell 60 Big Sid couldn't understand it, and he was a smart monkey. He had cased this job himself, personal. Had cooked up the scheme for pulling it off and had spent a good two weeks laying the groundwork. Yet here he was locked up in the county jail with the hot squat waiting to claim him.... THREE GUESSES By David Goodis 65 Detective Frey came in and saw Duggin lying dead, and he figured he'd go out and do big things. He went out and threw his weight around. Doing big things? You figure that one out. THE COP WAS A COWARD By Wilbur S. Peacock 73 Johnny Burke had the making of a fine cop in him ... but there was something strange about Johnny Burke--something mighty strange. A DINNER DATE WITH MURDER By Harry Stein 86 They had expected spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner, but were served instead, hot lead, with a little bit of blood on the side.... TWO TRUE FACT DETECTIVE SHORTS THE STRANGE CASE OF WILLIAM LONG By Roy Giles 81 ARTISTIC MURDERS MISFIRE By Mat Rand 90 HOODED DETECTIVE, published every other month by COLUMBIA PUBLICATIONS, INC. 1 Applelon Street, Holyoke, Mass. Editorial and executive offices 60 Hudson Street, New York, N. Y. Application for entry as second class matter pending at the Post Office at Holyoke, Mass. Yearly subscription 60c, single copy 10c. Printed in the U. S. A.