Eye witness

Kent Murdock rubbed his face. The stubble was pretty bad. He'd better not look like a stumble-bum at headquarters when he tried to explain what had happened last night. The whole thing had been a mistake, but he knew there was no turning back when he saw them enter the barbershop. They walked toward him quietly, professionally, one from either side. "Take it easy, bud," they said. "Just a routine check ... pickin' up all strangers... someone killed a guy named Murdock last night." George Harmon Coxe has written another sizzling story about your favorite news-photographer, Kent Murdock, who, in this newest puzzler, has to move faster than ever to stay ahead of the king-size eightballs that both the police and "persons unknown" keep trying to roll over him. Here's a better-than-ever detective story by a craftsman who has never let you down.