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:
Featured Mystery Novelet
The Captain Died In Silk
By Jack Hopper
Murder is a grim and serious business at any time — but when it suddenly breaks out among the crewmen of an American bomber, it can skirt the rim of treason!
Keys To The Killer — Complete Novelet
by Wayland Rice
Ex-Soldier Jerry Craig takes up arms again — this time to wage war against a sinister and death-dealing blackmailer!
Ten Years For Butch — Short Story
by Charles S. Strong
It takes more than a slick trick to fool a G-man
Medical Murder — Short Story
by Norman A. Daniels
Dr. Peter Frayne suddenly finds himself on the spot
Death Plays Santa Claus — Short Story
by Johnston McCulley
Lieutenant Mike O’Hara makes short work of a murder case
Nursery Crime — Short Story
by Joe Archibald
Willie Klump pushes a perambulator — and meets some plenty tough babies
Official Business — A Department
Where readers and the editor meet