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:
Featured Mystery Novelet
Motto for Murder
By Frank Johnson
When two strangers die under startlingly similar circumstances, private detective Rufe Reed and his aides take a trail of avarice that leads to the sensational exposure of a sinister criminal conspiracy!
Another Exciting Complete Novelet
The Chair Is Not Cheated
by Mel Watt
Dr. Coffin, the famous crime specialist of the air waves, is suddenly confronted with the grim menace of real murder!
Pilot to Murderer — Thrilling Short Story
by Walt Sheldon
The B-17 had a murdered tail gunner and a spy in its crew.
Clown of Doom — Thrilling Short Story
by John L. Benton
Ed Rice masquerades as a corpse to nab a killer.
Death by Proxy — Thrilling Short Story
by M.D. Orr
Archie McCann finds himself pitted against a poison dagger assassin.
The Witness Share — Thrilling Short Story
by Joe Archibald
Willie Klump uses poker tactics to clean up a full house of thieves.
Official Business — A Department
Where readers and the editor meet.
