"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:
Gripping Complete Novel
Featuring Dan Turner, Hollywood’s Super-Sleuth
Homicide Flash
by Robert Leslie Bellem
This hit-and-run kill had some rugged and particularly personal angles for Dan Turner, because the gunsels not only tried assorted mayhem on him — they also tried to drown him to cover the screwy clues!
Complete Novelette
Delivery From Evil
by Andrew Holt
Detective Martin Ferris was confronted by a quick quandary with that bizarre package he had to deliver across the continent, with murderers avidly near!
Short Stories
Incident At Eddie’s
by Ray Cummings
Nothing could happen at Eddie’s Barbecue, except maybe this very special kind of excitement!
When The Victim Dies
by Talmage Powell
Yes, she was an angel — and a Satan-hearted schemer who sowed tragedy even after murder.
Special Features
Unsafe Safe Theft
Sometimes It’s Snow, Sometimes Not.
Cops Don’t Get Rich
