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 Moody Hackett Novelet
Three Fingers of Death
by Roger Fuller
They all thought it was his heart, but one private eye didn’t see the death of Chester A. Carnes just that way — and therefore set out on a tough and dangerous investigation!
Knowledge of Crime — Complete Novelet
by Wyatt Blassingame
Jasper didn’t know whether or not he had killed Uncle Norton!
42 Keys to Murder — Complete Novelet
by Edward Churchill
Nick and Sue Burney turn crime-solvers when grim death stalks!
New Year’s Pardon — Short Story
by Johnston McCulley
Joe Leake plans to get a new tenant for his cell — and quickly!
Murder’s Handyman — Short Story
by Woodrow Wilson Smith
When three of Ogden’s relatives die, Johnny Curtin is curious
Hand of Guilt — Short Story
by Sam Bayne
What Nancy Horton’s millionaire customer needed was — a coffin
Photo Finish For a Dame — Short Story
by Joe Archibald
Daffy sleuth Willie Klump gets all tangled in a contagious case
A Lesson Too Late — Short Story
by Ray Cummings
George Delmar hated anything closer to Nature than a large city
Don’t Fool With Murder — Short Story
by Robert Sidney Bowen
The Great Cordova, handcuff king, gets sombre warning of doom
Official Business — Department
by The Editor
A friendly department where our readers and the editor meet
