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
The Juarez Knife
by Richard Deming
When Lawrence P. Randall, attorney-at-law, is stabbed to death, all the clues point one way — and that is just what makes private eye Manville Moon turn his gaze elsewhere!
A Cold Night For Murder — Complete Novelet
by J. Lane Linklater
Grains of glass on a dead man’s thumb point the way for Bill Treat when he takes the trail of a grim and baffling mystery!
I’ll Take That Rap — Complete Novelet
by Robert Leslie Bellem
Joe Ryan was dependable and had a big heart — so big that he let himself in for a murder charge when lethal crime stalked!
Stalling All Cars! — Short Story
by Joe Archibald
When Willie Klump takes Gertie for a spin, mobsters go along
Old Doc — Short Story
by George Metcalf Johnson
Willie Stone had everything all set — including a good alibi
Bullets For Free — Short Story
by Robert Sidney Bowen
Chet Lacey had to take the case when his old flame called him
Santa Thumbs A Ride — Short Story
by Johnston McCulley
Deputy Burke battles to solve an odd case of Yuletide crime
Official Business — Department
by The Editor
A friendly department where our readers and the editor meet
