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Lawbreakers Always Lose 10

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Published Spring 1948 – October 1949
Issue Numbers 1 – 10
Total Issues 10
Issue Information
Cover Date
October 1949
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia Publisher
Crime Bureau Stories, Inc.
 
Cover Titles
I Met My Murderer!
 
Cover Credits
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Issue Overview

Lawbreakers Always Lose #10 was published by Crime Bureau Stories, Inc. in October 1949. It is part of the Lawbreakers Always Lose series, which ran from Spring 1948 to October 1949.

Atlas Tales indexes 6 stories for this issue, including "The Secret of the Smiling Maiden!." Indexed story credits include Pierce Rice and Chu Hing, among others.

Stories

Notes: Story based on the historic theft of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa from the Musée du Louvre on 21 Aug 1911 by museum employee Vincenzo Perrugia. For some reason, the painting and museum are referred to as the "Museum of Classical Art" and "The Smiling Maiden;" the thief is called "Vincenzio Leopardi," and the date of the theft given as 23 Sep.
Notes: Ad for Blaze the Wonder Collie.
Notes: Story shows considerable similarity to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe (1841).

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