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 Book-Length Mystery Novel
The Grave Must Be Deep
by Norman A. Daniels
When rich and conservative Peter Ander suddenly goes berserk, there’s plenty of murder, mystery and intrigue in the wind — and nothing can stop Prosecutor Alec Hart from embarking on the baffling and perilous trail of a criminal case that some consider just a bit too hot to touch!
A Complete Novelet
Too Many Cops
by William O’Sullivan
Sheriff Joe Zeller’s knowledge of nature lore sure comes in mighty handy when he goes in pursuit of a dangerous killer!
Darling, You Shouldn’t Have! — Short Story
by Robert Sidney Bowen
Mrs. Roger Fenimore was as pretty as a picture, and Sleuth Chet Lacey found her right in the middle of a murder frame
Fit To Be Tried — Short Story
by Joe Archibald
Willie Klump, the Hawkeye Hawkshaw, tackles a tangled case of murder and loot, and gives the miscreant plenty of rope
The Wall Of Light — Short Story
by Anthony Tompkins
Ace detective Jerry McKay brilliantly solves a weird crime, unearths a clever killer — and springs a strange surprise!
Official Business — A Department
by The Editor