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.
Action, action and action... in spades! Nothing subtle about it, each issue of Detective Short Stories featured ten-to-twelve relentless, shameless, fierce action tales. Manvis Publications, the same publisher who brought you Ka-Zar, Amazing Detective Cases, American Sky Devils, Uncanny Stories, Six-Gun Western, Marvel Science Stories and many others, brought out the first issue of Detective Short Stories in August of 1937 and continued dishing the pulp thrills until the magazine folded with the October 1943 issue, yet another victim of wartime paper shortages. For twenty-five issues, readers got a wallop of exciting adventure for their thin dime. Detective Short Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Death in Disarray
by Omar Gwinn
She was a suspicious judy who didn’t like show-girls parking lovely thighs on Detective O’Brien’s lap. But when a flesh connoisseur began a blasphemous love ritual, horror-crazed Gloria learned that O’Brien was an incurable philanderer who’d even flirt with a killer’s hell-hot roscoe!
Dame Nature, Detective
by James H. Martin
Dame Nature was a fickle femme the night of that ruthless cop kill, because she alibied Tony Kinsella in a perfect crime — and then slapped him into the morgue!
The Gatman Beyond Disguise
by Richard Hughes
Detective Sam Jones was a slug-riddled hospital mummy when he learned that he could save the violinist kid’s genius only by shooting five grand from the head of chair-shadowed Al Manders!
Nothing But a Copper
by Edward S. Ronns
It didn’t make that corpse in Hilary’s bed any less disturbing — finding it watched over by a girl with raven-black hair and very red lips!
The Corpse Came Back
by Leo Stalnaker
The whole trouble with murder is — there has to be a corpse!
A Quiet Case of Murder
by James Hall
A peeping-tom Casanova on the make for a jitter-nerved, streamlined blonde decoyed Joe Dill into a Manhattan murder maze!
Hot Ice for Homicide
by Lawrence A. Keating
A caress from gorgeous Ellen Baird would make a statue run a fever, but tough Hal Ferguson’s temperature didn’t rise until Ellen fondled him with a snub-nosed gat!
Blood Is No Alibi
by Alexander Faust
A gag can sometimes be very funny — but not when it’s based on three murders and a snatch!
Hello, Killer
by Edward Warren
I’m telling you, no guy can throw bombs at my girl friend and get away with it!
Gaffed Guilt
by Robert O. Kenyon
An enslaved legion of walking cadavers was making Spider McHugh a man-trafficking Croesus — until that corpse-making cargo damned McHugh to the dungeon depths of a madman’s hell!
The Careless Cadaver
by Hugh B. Cave
WARNING: Never play nursemaid to a killer!
Censored in Hell
by Robert Thompson
The hot seat is waiting for the guy they can pin this one on.
