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
No Escape from Murder
by Wayland Rice
When it involves his business partner and all his best friends, Bob Arnold finds that lethal crime can be just too personal — and also a bit too dangerous and disturbing for his comfort!
The Corpse Came Ashore — Complete Novelet
by Sam Merwin, Jr.
Amy Brewster shakes some skeletons out of the family closet!
Twice Murdered — Complete Novelet
by Norman A. Daniels
To protect his wife, Larry Langan must find an elusive killer!
The Loot — Short Story
by Edward Ronns
It’s the chill breath of death that brings Henry Phelps to life
Competition Is Tough — Short Story
by O.B. Myers
In business, it’s the life of trade — but not in the rackets!
Silence Is Golden — Short Story
by Ray Cummings
Jed Balch talks, and his words sound a knell of doom for him
Not According to Doyle — Short Story
by Carter Critz
When a guard is wished on him this snooper has his hands full
One, Two, Three — Murder! — Short Story
by Robert J. Hogan
A mad strangler goes right down the line with his evil crimes
Official Business
by The Editor
A friendly department where our readers and the editor meet
