 Gernsback sold the title to Wallace Bamber, who published at least five more issues, starting in February 1931; no issues are known for June or July 1931, or after August.The stories in "Scientific Detective Monthly" were almost always detective stories, but they were only occasionally science fiction, as in many cases the science appearing in the stories already had practical applications.In the first issue, for example, "The Mystery of the Bulawayo Diamond", by Arthur B. Reeve, mentions unusual science, but the mystery is solved by the use of a bolometer to detect a blush on the face of a black woman.