"Boom! An explosion of pain roared through me, blasted me all the way to my shoestrings. Klieg lights made pinwheel patterns in my glims, an atomic bomb took my grey cells apart, and I plunged into a deep black well of unconsciousness. For me it was the end of a chapter." Those inimitable words from Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, came from the pen of famed author Robert Leslie Bellem. His colorful slang was to influence hard-boiled dicks for decades. Turner was a shamus who made Tinsel-town his stomping grounds. Crime amongst the glitter. The character made his debut in 1934 as a short story in Spicy Detective magazine. It continued there, one of the most popular recurring characters. In January 1942, publisher Culture Publications spun it off into its own magazine. There were 59 issues of the series, until the final issue in October 1950. Hollywood Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Complete Book-Length Novel
Featuring Dan Turner, Movie-Land’s Super-Sleuth
The Lake Of The Left-Hand Moon
by Robert Leslie Bellem
Trying to catch a killer, Dan Turner almost becomes one himself. And, stumbling over corpse after corpse, he comes within an ace of joining their ranks!
Novelettes and Short Stories — That Are Different
The Seer Sees Death
by Jerome Severs Perry
Because he was a giant almost, they called him Little Jack Horner. And he was afraid of nobody, and his threats were as valid as those of the district attorney.
Prune Picking Patriot
by E. Hoffmann Price
Although the work of a private detective is considered non-essential, the army had no place for Honest John, Nevertheless, he felt he had to do something for his country,
Slice Of Murder
by Ellery Watson Calder
Once Jeff had been able to throw knives like nobody else in the world. But now his nerves were on edge. For the first time in his life he discovered what it was to be afraid.
Special Features
New Racket Warning
Keeping up with the latest trends in chiselry.
Movie River Flows On Cue
A man-made river in the land of make-believe.
Criminals Who Ran A City
When cleaning up meant what it said: “Cleaning up!”
