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:
Featured Novel
Speak Softly to the Dead
By Dale Bogard
Many corpses blocked Bogard’s search for the millionaire’s love-child, but only ONE had a secret that must not be told!
Complete Novelet
Suicide Cliff
by Norman A. Daniels
Murder with Onions — Short Story
by Philip Week
The Commissioner Breeds ’em Tough — Short Story
by R.V. Taylor
Shed No Tears for Me — Short Story
by Frederick C. Davis
Image of a Man — Short Story
by Graham Doar
Through the Eye of Homicide — Short Story
by O.B. Myers
Inside Stuff — Feature
by Stewart Sterling
Crooks Are the Craziest People — Feature
by Cellblock Sam
Ingenuity Plus — Feature
by Carter Critz
Detective Movie News — Feature
by Ann Kennedy
The Brassiere Murder Case — True Story
by Harold Helfer
Bureau of Missing Persons — A Department