Laurence M. Janifer: "A Gun with a Heart," "Liana," and "El Rey"

You gotta have faith! Did I like any of the three stories by Laurence M. Janifer, published in the early 1950s under pen names in a science fiction magazine Janifer himself ghost-edited, that I read in our last exciting episode? No, I did not. Does that mean I am going to stop reading Janifer or 1950s magazines? Not on your life! I dug around the internet archive and philsp.com and luminist.org and found three stories by Janifer published in 1950s mystery/detective magazines, all appearing under pseudonyms, and today we read them (in the order I found them, not chronological order.) If you care to, read these stories yourself at these links:"A Gun with a Heart" "Liana" "El Rey""A Gun with a Heart" (1958)This one debuted in a 1958 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, but I'll be reading it in a scan of the British 1984 printing of the anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 16 Skeletons from my Closet. This book also reprints a 1957 Robert Bloch story, "Man With a Hobby," that I…