Case of the Exploding Men — Ray Cummings

Strange Detective Mysteries, November 1938
CASE OF THE EXPLODING MEN
A novelette of amazing murder at the crossroads of the world
A Detective Novel of Weird Mystery
by Ray Cummings

Half-mad with fear, Dugan & Dugan's terrified client babbled his plea for protection . . . . Even as he spoke, there came that fearful, gruesome sound, and torn fragments of bleeding flesh flung red banners above the panicked thousands, while a city became a charnel house of ghastly, exploded corpses!

Even as a terrified client babbled his plea for protection, Dugan and Dugan, private detectives, heard that dread thunder of death -- and torn fragments of bleeding flesh flung red banners above Broadway's panicked thousands!

Chapter 1: The Frightened Man
Chapter 2: When Death Comes Creeping
Chapter 3: Terror Strikes at Night!
Chapter 4: The Strangled Voice
Chapter 5: Murder Visits in Shadow
Chapter 6: Secret of the Masked Madman

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