The Blood Ring

Written by Paul Ernst, it was published in the March 1, 1940 issue of The Avenger magazine.

Nellie Gray is prominent on the list of intended sacrifices, and Smitty, rescuing her at one point, Samson-like, pulls down a reproduction Egyptian temple in the museum.

Josh guards the Egyptian exhibit at night after a guard is killed and another quits; realistically nervous, he displays none of the typical feet-shuffling eye-rolling mannerisms often found in the pulps of this time.

Benson's scientific sleuthing reveals that Egyptian symbolism, drugs, hypnosis, and technology were used by the villain as part of a blackmail scheme.

Typically, Benson turns the villain and his gang against one another, and tricks them into dying in their own death trap.