Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Witch's Moon (1941), by Giles Jackson (aka Dana Chambers, aka Albert Fear Leffingwell)

"Whoever likes [their] murders multitudinous will find them here....[There's a] plethoric flow of gore short [only] of Nazi warfare."--"How the Blood Runs!" Review of Witch's Moon in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, July 28, 1941First American editionTwo paperback editions followed, one with the title changed to,alliteratively but rather ridiculously, Blood on the BlondeBetween 1939 and 1947 former intelligence officer, retired adman and current-day crime writer Albert Fear Leffingwell published 13 crime novels, the last of which appeared posthumously. Only one of these was published under his own name, with another nine appearing under the pseudonym Dana Chambers and a pair under the pseudonym Giles Jackson. Seven of the ten Dana Chambers novels were series tales about amateur sleuth Jim Steele, a gent with the most hardboiled detective name this side of Mike Hammer (though Jim wasn't one, actually), while the remaining three were non-series. The Jim Steele novels are currently being…