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.
Thrilling tales of the criminal underground! Columbia Publications (aka Double-Action Magazines) was late in entering the gangster-story field, but made up for it in action, action and more action. Also, known for its other Double-Action titles like Double-Action Detective and Double-Action Western, the publisher released the first issue in August 1938 under the title Ten Story Gang. It lasted six issues under that title, and was then renamed to Gangland Detective Stores. After three issues under that title, the magazine folded with the September 1940 issue. Nine issues were published in all. It was a short-lived pulp, but while being published, it really delivered the goods with plenty of thrills and bloodshed. Gangland Detective Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Four Sensational Novelets
Murder Is My Business
by Hugh J. Gallagher
“Is there someone you don’t like?” Then Fatso Benny is the man you want to see for bargains in murder!
Blue-Prints Backfire
by James Rourke
Slick Harry Powell worked out a perfectly fool-proof plan. It fooled the coppers, it fooled his gang, it fooled the innocent moll who was in love with him. But the plan back-fired... It even fooled him!
The Devil Laughed Last
by Mat Rand
Good fortune smiled and Steve Dallard chuckled when he pulled a hot lead double cross, but fortune grimaced and Dallard screamed when the Devil opened his mouth in a great belly laugh!
The Bronze Arrow
by Dougal McDougal
“Coincidence — That’s the word this language could do without,” remarked Matt Murphy, but Charlie MacDonald recalled the case of the Bronze Arrow!
Six Dynamic Short Stories
A Lodger For The Morgue
by Paul Selonke
To collect a $100 fee, tough dick Jim Rowan snared himself in a girl-baited snatch frame... where every breath had to be bought with time borrowed from the morgue!
The Man Who Framed Himself
by Calvin L. Boswell
Because he preferred a glamour babe’s pulse-warming perfume to San Quentin’s gas chamber cyanide, murder-framed Dave Towne appointed his own executioner!
Bullet Broadcast
by John A. Saxon
The clue that would solve his friend’s murder was a beautiful secretary’s missing typewriter... but when Reporter Nick Clinton discovered who had stolen that machine, his news broadcast was suddenly drowned out by a racket maestro’s gat symphony!
The Death Cast
by Lewis Stirling
The corpse maker who’d given Sylvia Reynolds a bullet for a right eye mended her grieving lover’s broken heart — with a .22 slug!
Homicide Headlines
by Carroll B. Mayers
Too much publicity was destined to get insurance dick Val Lucas measured for a shroud... unless his headline-making fiancée became a killer!
Death Balances The Books
by Joseph E. Nichols
When a gambling ghoul parlayed three corpses into a hundred grand payoff, tough dick Greg Nevers learned that he himself was the odds-on favorite to beat them to the morgue!
