Forged in war, The Phantom Detective wages a one-man battle on crime! Solving impossible mysteries and delivering his own justice, he is the underworld’s masked nightmare!
The Phantom Detective joins a three-cornered fight on crime in the Florida Everglades, pitting his power against a deadly gang! Follow the ace of sleuths as he trails his foes from the Hialeah Track to a grim gambling ship where human lives are the high stakes in a game of greed!
House names, that is multiple authors writing under a single pseudonym for a series, were common in Pulp magazines. Notable characters often had only one author attached to them on the covers of magazines, but multiple scribes may have added to their legacies. This was no different for The Phantom Detective and actually this particular series may have held the record for the number of authors writing under a single house name, due in part to its 170 issue and twenty year run. It is accepted that the first eleven issues, all of them under the name G. Wayman Jones, may have all been written by noted Pulp author D. L. Champion. The house name changed, however, with issue twelve, switching to Robert Wallace. Some have theorized that this was done to perhaps gain some recognition due to the similarly named mystery writer of the period, Edgar Wallace. Although a list of authors contributing to The Phantom Detective has been compiled at various times, no one single author seemed to consistently write the character for any consecutive length of time. Norman A. Daniels wrote the most stories under the Wallace name, penning more than 36 tales. Each author, whether they took the Phantom Detective far afield or kept him close to the crime ridden streets, left an indelible mark on the character, adding to the most interesting legacy in Pulp.
Money Mad Murders was originally published in the November 1939 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: “Long Shot” Murder
Chapter 2: Suckers Get a Break
Chapter 3: The Hand of “Satan”
Chapter 4: Shuffled Money
Chapter 5: Worried Financiers
Chapter 6: Corpses Can’t Talk
Chapter 7: Strange Escape
Chapter 8: Making the Dead Live
Chapter 9: Murder Up North
Chapter 10: Green-Robed Men Strike
Chapter 11: On the Golden Dream
Chapter 12: Gambling Ship Hell
Chapter 13: Towing Torture
Chapter 14: Voice of the Shark
Chapter 15: Smart Chip Dorlan
Chapter 16: Red Strawberries
Chapter 17: Worried Mr. Lister
Chapter 18: Barricade Of Snakes
Chapter 19: Death Rain of Sand
Chapter 20: Follow the Snakes
Chapter 21: Ten Takes a Trick
Chapter 22: Perfect Money
