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.
Headquarters Detective was a rather unusual item in the history of pulp magazines. It began as a totally different type of magazine when it debuted in January 1929 under the title Sky Birds. It featured stories of derring-do in the WWI skies over France and Germany. And it stayed that way for seventy-four issues until December 1935. At that point, it made a radical change of direction, and was retitled Headquarters Detective. Ace Magazines, publisher of Headquarters Detective, were seeing sales drop as tensions in Europe rose, and interest in the old bi-planes waned. They were having great success with its line of other detective pulps... titles like Capt. Hazzard, Lone Wolf Detective, Spy Novels, Secret Agent X and Gold Seal Detective. So the Sky Birds title was dropped and Headquarters Detective took its place. Filled with action, the headquarters police were pitted against underworld thugs in thrilling gun battles. But unfortunately, this too failed to garner a sufficient number of readers, and after six more issues, Headquarters Detective was discontinued. There had been 80 issues of the two combined titles. Headquarters Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Three Top-Rank Novelettes
Murder Treadmill
by Steve Fisher
Detective Tony Saxon tries to stop a murder treadmill — but gets Tommy-gun tangled when a girl joins the march to the morgue.
G-Man Juggernaut
by G.T. Fleming-Roberts
John Dirk tries to find the hub of the vice wheel — and a big spoke leads him to the father of a girl he’d helped.
Hell’s Handymen
by George A. McDonald
Lieutenant O’Dare gets a commission to arrest the only man who can give life back to his pal.
Five Moving Short Stories
Death On The Hook
by John K. Butler
Sandy Taylor proves there’s a new horror on the waterfront — when he’s offered death on the hook.
Homicide Help Wanted
by Grant Lane
From the grave comes an answer to a plea for homicide help.
Blood On The Ticket
by William Bruner
Rocky King finds that a new way to stymie a cop is to put him in the cooler.
A Copper Calls His Shots!
by Cleve F. Adams
Detective Fallon takes a cue from a killer.
Switched Doom
by Orlando Rigoni
“Toothy” Bergum learns death can be transplanted.
