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.
"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:
Feature Novelettes Starring Dan Turner, Hollywood’s Super-Sleuth
Careless Corpse
by Robert Leslie Bellem
That bog us postman brought Dun Turner a splendid special-delivery whack with a blackjack — thereby involving the ace movietown hawkshaw with low killery, high finance and dangerous bafflement!
Treachery Pulls The Trigger
by Robert Leslie Bellem
Dan urns startled when the monocled publisher-gambler didn’t answer his questions — but the grim gumshoe was even more startled when he discovered the reason, which was unsettling to the health of several quite rough lugs.
Special Novelettes
Murder Goes Swimming
By Paul Hanna
Those two screwball reporters had a dazzling scoop figured out when they rescued a movie actress from the briny — then suddenly they were up to their necks in killery trouble on dry land!
Homicidal Holiday
By Laurence Donovan
Sham us Kent had intended merely to go fishing, and he did indeed — fishing for a ruthless murderer who had already struck twice and was now eager to add Kent, a movie star and her director to his string of dead items.
Outstanding Dan Turner Novel
The Riddle Thumbs A Ride
by Robert Leslie Bellem
By way of Dan’s jalopy, that beauteous bride of the aging flicker star hitch-hiked herself and the famous shamus into one of the locoedest mysteries ever — to run wild even in movietown!
Special Short Stories
Death On The Downbeat
By Frank Roberts
The detective sergeant had to give a heel, whom he hated and suspected, every breakI
Glass For Gallardo
By Harley L. Court
With a flock of vicious hood gunmen out to nail him, Nolan needed more than army tricks!
Crime Features
Saving On Safes Is No Saving!
By Will Nichols
Earliest American Court
By William McCombs
Good short story collection 
