Diary Review: ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE November 1948.

ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE November 1948. Cover by George Salter. Overall rating: **½ ROY VICKERS “The Death Position Enigma.” Department of Dead Ends story, Coincidence and a mistake combine to help solve an old murder case, Inverted detection. (2) GEORGES SIMENON “L Chateau de L’Arsenic.” A curious doctor takes it upon himself to investigate a chateau about which rumors are flying. (3) LESLIE CHARTERIS “Salt on His Tail,” The Saint salts a mine twice. Unbelievably obvious. (1) JOSEPH SHEARING “Love-in-a-Mist.” An aged spinster allows her secret love to get away with murder. (3) RONALD KNOX “The Motive,” First appeared in the Illustrated London News, December 1937, A John Dickson Carr “best,” Suicide as a motive for murder, (4) THOMAS WALSH “Getaway Money.” Drake helps save an old friend’s son from a murder rap. (3) FULTON OURSLER “The Thrill Is Gone.” First appeared in Collier’s, 1942. A daring man discovers that his wife really didn’t kill her first husband, (4) M. P. SHIEL &…