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.
Black Book Detective magazine was probably best known for its long-running series of adventure stories featuring the crimefighter known as The Black Bat. But The Black Bat didn't appear until six years into the magazine's run with the July 1939 issue. The magazine first hit the newsstands with the June 1933 issue. For the next six years, it tried different approaches. Issue one began with a featured novel and several backup short stories. The following year it started promoting "three new complete novels" in each magazine, but abandoned that approach after four issues. It then tried shorter novelets, combined with short stories. In 1935 and 1936, it tried the "weird menace" approach, featuring scantily-clad women in peril on the covers, then switched back to hard crime. In 1938 they tried featuring recurring characters in their main novel. Gentleman thief Raffles appeared in two consecutive issues. Jonathan Drake, Ace Manhunter appeared in three issues.
The editors struck gold with The Black Bat, who first appeared in the July 1939 issue. Supposedly blind District Attorney Tony Quinn was secretly the master crime fighter known as The Black Bat. The stories were credited to the house name of G. Wayman Jones, but in actuality were written mainly by Norman A. Daniels. The Black Bat stories ran exclusively in the bi-monthly Black Book Detective magazine until it finally printed its last issue in the Winter of 1953. Black Book Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
A Complete Tony Quinn Novel
Murder Town
by Rudolph Belarski writing as G. Wayman Jones
Tony Quinn, nemesis of crime who is known as the Block Bat, probes the strange mystery of a suicide that did not take — and its alarming aftermath of widespread violence and disaster!
A Complete Novelet
The Jackpot Spilled Danger
by E. Rechnitzer
When they suddenly discover the gruesome corpse at Elbow Lake, Gramps Waldo and Calvin must know all of the answers — or else!
Short Stories
Thubway Tham’s Funny Money
by Johnston McCulley
Tham picks up some old coins — and has a toss-up with the law!
Too Dumb To Kill
by C.K.M. Scanlon
It takes more than mere murder to spoil Johnny Glenn’s appetite...
Dirty Hands
by B.J. Benson
When death stalks, Detective Pebble points at a walking corpse.
Special Features
Off The Record
by The Editor
A live-wire department where readers and the editor get together.
The First Gang Buster
by Robert Wallace
The true story of Jacob Hays, old New York’s one-man police force.
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