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.
A steely-eyed private dick with an unshaven jaw of granite... a gat of dull gun-metal gray sags heavily under his armpit... he works the seamy underbelly of the city, coming up against squinty-eyed thugs, weasels who value human life less than the coins jingling in their pocket, and red-lipped bimbos with hot breath, wide eyes and long silky legs. The stories are hard, gritty and action-packed. They fairly scream, "pulp!" This was what Private Detective Stories offered beginning with its first issue in June of 1937. It came from the same publisher who brought you Blazing Western, Candid Detective, The Lone Ranger Magazine, Speed Adventure Stories and Speed Mystery. In all, 134 issues were published until the magazine closed in June of 1949. Private Detective Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Complete Novel —
Featuring Cupid “Killer” Cain
Murder Wears A High Hat
by George A. McDonald
It was common knowledge that Madame Sable was dead. Yet the disappearance of Washington’s “Mystery Man” had every earmark of that lady’s diabolical machinations.
Novelettes
Brunette Beautician
by E. Hoffmann Price
Dargan was relaxing from sleuthing, but when murder caught him in the middle, the whole picture changed.
Death On A Platter
by Andrew Holt
The wise guys on Broadway said Mike was “jungle-happy.” He knew better, but it took bloody murder to prove it.
Short Stories
Ollie Gets His Evidence
by Harold de Polo
It’s like Spring fever, this annual epidemic of violence when the lumberjacks come to town.
Special Effect
by Robert Leslie Bellem
The courtroom buzzed with excitement when the attorney for the defense unleashed his thunderbolt.
Curse Of The Tremaines
by Hugh Speer
The words were explicit. “Never shall the eldest son of a Tremaine inherit his father’s possessions!”
Pistol-Packin’ Gran’ma
by Laurence Donovan
Dying, he saw his chance to do that one good deed that would atone for much that he had done.