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:
A Mystery Novel
Death Halts a Holiday
by Edward Churchill
Framed for the murder of a client in an Arizona desert town, private detective Nick Blade must fit a jigsaw of clues into a picture of crime!
A Complete Novelet
Black Sheep Kill
by Dale Clark
It all began with a broken theatre date — and it ended in a strange and baffling drama of violent and mysterious murder!
Stuck With the Evidence — Short Story
by Joe Archibald
When it’s Ferdinand Fingly’s finale, Willie Klump gets busy!
Guns Are Handy Things — Short Story
by Robert Sidney Bowen
Chet Lacey takes on the chore of bringing Alec Keltner home
Murder Turns the Curve — Short Story
by Bruno Fischer
There are certain times when an accident is — not an accident!
Alibi Baby — Short Story
by Stewart Sterling
A water-soaked derby hat leads Steve Koski to a double murder
Amy Stops the Clock — Short Story
by Sam Merwin, Jr.
The gargantuan Miss Brewster fortifies herself for a hard case
Official Business — Feature
by The Editor
A friendly department where our readers and the editor meet
The Story Behind Dillinger’s Death — Feature
by Jackson Hite
First of a series on little-known facts about famous crimes
