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:
Complete Mystery Novel
Aftermath of Murder
by Norman A. Daniels
An irresistible avarice drives Johnny Stafford to grim deeds of violence as the many-taloned claws of desperation weave an evil and sinister web of crime and intrigue that enmeshes him in guilt!
Death Watch — Full-length Novelet
by Arthur Leo Zagat
Don Lanham and Judith Moore put up a fight to the finish to smash an ingenious and baffling criminal frame-up wide open!
You Wake Up Dead! — Full-length Novelet
by Robert Sidney Bowen
When bootblack Tony is polished off while on an errand, Chet Lacey sets out to avenge him — and bucks a murderous racket!
A Man’s Best Friend Is An Alibi — Short Story
by Jack Kofoed
Detective McGarry tackles the tough case of a gem robbery haul
D.P. From Brooklyn — Short Story
by O.B. Myers
Major Parke takes a hand in a very complicated game of wits
No Truck With Murder — Short Story
by Donald Bayne Hobart
When he’s hired to “do nothing,” Detective Hardy gets busy
Kilroy Rides Again — Short Story
by Joe Archibald
Private gumshoe Willie Klump takes the trail of “Boom Boom” Tortoni
Official Business — Department
by The Editor
A friendly department where our readers and the editor meet
