Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
Thrills, mystery and action! Popular Detective magazine really lived up to its name. It was one of the longest running detective pulps and contained some of the best of detective fiction around. November 1934 saw the inaugural issue, coming from Better Publications, the publisher of all those Thrilling pulps... Thrilling Detective, Thrilling Mystery, Thrilling Western, Thrilling Adventures, Thrilling Wonder Stories and many others without the word "Thrilling" in the title, as well. The Black Bat, Captain Future, The Green Ghost, the Phantom Detective... all these were from Better Publications. Popular Detective was offered monthly until 1938, then bi-monthly. And within those 128 pages, could be found authors like C.K.M. Scanlon, Frederick C. Painton, L. Ron Hubbard, Johnston McCulley, Leslie Charteris, and many others of top-notch talent. The magazine finally folder in the fall of 1953, after an amazing 133 issues of quality detective fiction. Popular Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
A Complete Crime Novel
Sons Of Suicide
By Arthur J. Burks
A sinister web of intrigue is woven about the corpse of a disgraced policeman as Jay Petry faces unknown enemies a desperate battle to vindicate his father’s honor!
Marked For Death — Complete Novelette
by Philip L. Ketchum
Terrible, fanged doom from the heart of mysterious, exotic India lashes out menacingly at the Barnsleys!
The Left-Handed Legacy — Complete Novelette
by G.T. Fleming-Roberts
Hell raps when a murder challenges necromancy’s skill — while Diamondstone combats a mystery maze with legerdemain!
Dead End Street — Thrilling Story
by Owen Fox Jerome
A rookie patrolman stakes his career on a gamble
Trapped By Astronomy — Thrilling Story
by Ray Cummings
Featuring Dr. Feather, criminologist, in action
The Ten-Dollar Hunch — Thrilling Story
by Robert Sidney Bowen
“Tip” Blake plays a phony sawbuck for a sure win!
The Affair Of The Necklace — Thrilling Story
by Jack Kofoed
A true account of an amazing historic crime
Official Business — A Department