The reading public could never seem to get enough of gritty detective tales. Tales of a steely eyed gumshoe as he mixed with everyone from the high-society toffs to the thick-lipped underworld thugs. In the summer of 1933 a new pulp hit the newsstands entitled Two-Books Detective Magazine. It offered, as the title indicated, two full-length detective novels. By September of 1934, the magazine was offering four novels in each issue. Bowing to the illogic of the title, the name of the magazine was changed to New Detective Magazine, as of March 1935. The publication closed after five more issues with the December 1935 issue. In all, under one title or the other, fourteen issues were published. Each of them offered swift-moving novels that thrilled readers from coast to coast. New Detective Magazine returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Twenty-Story Death — A Novel
by Anthony Field
Cunning murder far above the city streets.
The Devil’s Brother — A Novel
by Margie Harris
Hidden wires, a weird death chamber, and the Queen of Crooks.
Dead Man Overboard — A Novel
by Weed Dickinson
Detective Calhoun picks up a millionaire’s body.
The Murder Room — A Novel
by Otis Adelbert Kline And E. Hoffman Price
A “St. Valentine’s Massacre” of bankers in a police-guarded bank.
Another New Headache For The Murderer
by Thomas Morgan
A national catalogue of bullet-prints.
