10 STORY MYSTERY MAGAZINE. March 1945 (volume 17, number 16). Toronto, Montreal: Popular Publications, Inc., March 1945 (volume 17, number 16). Octavo, single issue, cover by Rafael DeSoto (reprint of the January 1945 DIME MYSTERY cover), pictorial wrappers. Nine issues of TEN STORY MYSTERY were published in the United States from December 1941 through April 1943. After the magazine was combined with DIME MYSTERY, it continued in a Canadian edition which was published at least as late as 1945, some issues with reprint covers and stories from DIME MYSTERY. Includes "The Night the World Ended" by Fredric Brown (first published in the January 1945 issue of DIME MYSTERY). Cook, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines, pp. 561-62. Some fraying and shallow chipping along overlapping edges, several short closed cover tears, a bright, solid very good copy. The Canadian issues are uncommon. (#96899)