Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (December 1961)


December 1961

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journal: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (December 1961)
issue: volume 6, number 12

Introduction

Dear Readers:

Observe, it you will, and admire, you please, the aplomb which I display on the cover of this month's issue. The French have a word for it ... sangfroid ... which in beatnik translated as "cool, man, cool!" The cold perspiration bespangling my brow bears mute witness to my coolness. So cool am I, in fact, that the skeletal hand has turned green in envy of my imperturbability, and of my absorption in the December AHMM. Out of my forefinger is hovering over a row of buttons, and I am silently debating whether to push the panic-button, the burglar-alarm, or the light-switch?

This trifling interruption has broken my train of thought, which accounts for the look of annoyance on my face. I was about to start PUNCH ANY NUMBER, the novelette by Jack Ritchie. There are other excellent stories in this month's issue, and it is my earnest hope that you will be so diverted by them that you will take immediate advantage of the Christmas Subscription offer on pages 65 and 66, and bestow AHMM as a gift upon your nearest and dearest, to keep your memory as green as the hand on the cover, throughout the coming year.

— Alfred Hitchcock

A Little Push From Cappy Fleers - Gilbert Ralston
Brother, Dear - Glenn Canary
A Reform Movement - Donald Martin
Daddy's Girl - Michael Zuroy
A Matter of Acoustics - Georges Carousso
A Nice Cup of Cocoa - Roland F. Lee
The Engineer's Cap - Donald Honig
Isn't it a Perfect Crime? - James Gilmore
The Vapor Clue - James Holding
A Slight Miscalculation - Arthur Porges

Notes

Punch Any Number appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Death-Mate (1973)

Magazine Credits

Richard E. Decker - Publisher
Lisa Belknap - Editor
Pat Hitchcock - Associate Editor
G.F. Foster - Managing Editor
Marguerite Blair Deacon - Illustrator
Meinrad Mayer - Art Director

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