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:
Featured Novel
Hot, Willing — And Deadly
by Stewart Sterling
Big dough was at stake, and the girl leading Quinn to that shady motel would do anything to get it!
A Novelet
Right Guy
by William Degenhard
Danny wouldn’t trust a cop... Would you?
Other Stories
Enough Rope — True
by Harold Helfer
He seemed all broken up over his wife’s death
The Eyes Of Murder
by Philip Ketchum
Why were those men watching Evans so furtively?
A Place To Hide
by Richard Deming
His murder victim recommended a perfect sanctuary
Holdup At Twin Palms
by Roger Dee
The killer stopped at a service station — for help
Crazy
by Murray Leinster
What would you do if attacked by a strangler?
Girl In Trouble
by Robert Sidney Bowen
She was pretty — and in a pretty pickle!
He Killed 31 — True
by Freeman Hubbard
He had an idea to sell — and did it the hard way
Keep It Quiet
by Edward Ronns
The blonde was found murdered — in her bedroom!
Special Features
Crime Confidential
by Norman Renard
A Slight Case Of Graft
by Manly E. David
What Is It? — A Quiz
by Joseph C. Stacey
What — Not Again!
by Carter Critz
Rough On Cats
by Bill Clegg
Clever, These Racketeers
by Fred M. Maul
Line O’ Crime
by Jack Benton
