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.
Thrills, mystery and action! Popular Detective magazine really lived up to its name. It was one of the longest running detective pulps and contained some of the best of detective fiction around. November 1934 saw the inaugural issue, coming from Better Publications, the publisher of all those Thrilling pulps... Thrilling Detective, Thrilling Mystery, Thrilling Western, Thrilling Adventures, Thrilling Wonder Stories and many others without the word "Thrilling" in the title, as well. The Black Bat, Captain Future, The Green Ghost, the Phantom Detective... all these were from Better Publications. Popular Detective was offered monthly until 1938, then bi-monthly. And within those 128 pages, could be found authors like C.K.M. Scanlon, Frederick C. Painton, L. Ron Hubbard, Johnston McCulley, Leslie Charteris, and many others of top-notch talent. The magazine finally folder in the fall of 1953, after an amazing 133 issues of quality detective fiction. Popular Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
A Baffling Mystery Novel
The Irish Death Trap
By Don Tracy
Everybody was out of step except Private Francis Xavier Murphy — until it was time to crack down on a crew of criminal saboteurs
The Bird Master — Complete Novelet
by Arthur J. Burks
Twitterings and squawks that presage looting and death hand a cuckoo of a murder case to Detective Mickie O’Day!
The Big-Top Mystery — Complete Novelet
by Thomson Burtis
Circus roustabout Rick Jorgenson faces the toughest decision of his life when his past suddenly confronts him!
William Klump, Nursemaid — Thrilling Short Story
by Joe Archibald
The Hawkeye Hawkshaw plays “wooden duck” for a killer
Transfusion — Thrilling Short Story
by Murray Leinster
A mysterious death that might have been suicide — or murder!
Date With A Thousand Deaths — Thrilling Short Story
by Frank Johnson
Bill Kenyon pits himself against an elusive Parisian spy
The Cop And The Cobbler — Thrilling Short Story
by John L. Benton
Joe Gregg has a swell hiding place for a stolen diamond, but —
Official Business — A Department
Straight To The Bottom — A Message
by Westbrook Pegler
