Tag: Collier’s Weekly
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Ben Hecht and the “Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers”
James L. FranklinChicago, Illinois, United States The January 16, 1943 issue of Collier’s Weekly featured a short story by the famous and multifaceted author Ben Hecht titled “Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers,” with the subtitle “The X Club hosts a post-mortem.” The publisher framed the text with a black-and-white illustration of a group of masked…