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:
Killer In His Bed
By Norman A. Daniels
He shared his honeymoon with a “murderess”
Blues In The Night
By Stewart Sterling
There was a corpse on Pier 19
Most Men Don’t Kill
By David Alexander
The naked lady was out of this world
4 New Short Stories
I’ll Die For You, Baby
By Ray Gaulden
— but not for your zootsuit boyfriend
Morning For Terror
By Dean Owen
It began with a murder
The Clue In The Ashtray
By P.W. Luce
Matchstick plus cigarette equals killer
Another Kind Of Cop
By Duane Yarnell
Most cops are honest
2 Detective Classics
Thieves’ Blueprint
By Dale Clark
A hot time south of the Border
Murder Marked
By Cyril Plunkett
Some things embarrass even hotel detectives
3 Features
Official Business
By The Editor
A sexy glamor-puss meets murder
The Liars’ Club
Conducted By Harold Helfer
Crooks are the craziest people
Vanishing Fingerprints
By Norman Renard
Now you see them, new you don’t
