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.
Crack Detective Stories was a magazine that underwent multiple name changes... eight of them! During the middle of its run, it was known as Crack Detective Stories, but it didn't start out that way. Detective Yarns, as it was first known, made its debut with the June 1938 issue, coming from Columbia Publications. It switched to a character pulp, featuring The Black Hood as of September 1941, and its name changed to Black Hood Detective. Then it became Hooded Detective for two issues until Crack Detective was born in May of 1942. After ten issues a single word was added to the name, and it became Crack Detective Stories. With the November 1949 issue the title was changed to Famous Detective, and then after three issues it became Famous Detective Stories. The final incarnation began in December 1956 with the name Crack Detective and Mystery Stories. This title lasted for four issues. The final issue was July 1957, outlasting most of the other pulp magazines on the market. There were 97 issues published in all. Crack Detective Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Novel
The 18 Carat Corpse
by T.W. Ford
N. Nickleby Dickens was a publicity man, not a private detective, but when this gorgeous blonde came to him with a story of her father being stolon, he couldn’t resist temptation. And that bit of corpse-snatching led to the manufacture of new corpses to cover a slight case of murder!
Novelet
Murder, She Says!
by J.J. Meany
Mike Sweeney should have left his wife home when he went to the carnival, for, vacation or no vacation, Kay could see crime lurking on every corner and smell out murder a mile away!
The Gun
by Stephen Payne
Gene Ricklin wanted to be a cop, and his chance came when old Matheson was murdered and clues were conspicuous by their absence!
Muffed Homicide
by Ted Stratton
An old First Basemen’s mitt puts the finger on a cunning killer.
He Beat The Rap
by Cliff Campbell
An ironic little drama was enacted when they caught up with Joe Alecco!
Inside Job
by Arthur Mann
It all started when four chandeliers, eight bronze door-knobs, and a grill-iron door were stolen right out of police headquarters...
How Forgery Is Detected
by Kenneth P. Wood
A fact article.
Proxy Kill
by Stephen J. Lynch
Jud Murdock wasn’t leaving any loopholes when he decided to remove his stepbrother!
Trapped — By Death!
by Walter C. Fabell
An alibi is sometimes a two-edged weapon!
Department
Law And Disorder
by Wilcey Earle
Facts and Fun about crime.
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