Little Apple Hard To Peel [Illustrated]

Detective Tales, February 1942
LITTLE APPLE HARD TO PEEL
by Fredric Brown

There’s a limit to what even the gentlest man can endure.

No man, we thought, could be quite so tough as John Appel seemed. Then Les Willis’ unendurable grief drove him to defy a mad-man’s boast—and the world knew we’d been wrong!

4800 Words


And as a Bonus, 2 Features!


Detective Tales, February 1942
ODDITIES IN CRIME
A Feature
by John L. Blummer
Selected morsels of felony and murder.
375 Words

Detective Tales, February 1942
CRIME IN OLD CHICAGO
A Feature
The lusty infancy of the Windy City’s Underworld.
500 Words

This edition includes all of the illustrations from the story and 2 features, plus the cover and an assortment of ads from the Feb 1942 Detective Tales issue.