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
A Streetcar Named Death
by Donn Mullally
Cable-car gripman Terrence Lannigan wondered why that blonde kept on riding — and found the weird answer in hot money, a frame-up and a death trap!
A Steve Koski Novelet
A Nice Night For Murder
by Stewart Sterling
A harbor police officer braves chopping whitecaps in stormy seas to board a sinking yacht that is stalked by grim death!
Three Dead Men — Detective Novelet Classic
by Roger Torrey
Walters finds his man and the money — but who takes the rap?
The King Of The Corpse Makers — Detective Novelet Classic
by Ward Hawkins
Sheriff Jim Spears runs up against some big-town racketeers!
Man Overboard — Short Story
by Arthur J. Burks
The Sherlock Holmes Theory — Short Story
by Jack Kofoed
The Chair — Short Story
by Richard Brister
D, My Name Is Death — Short Story
by Arthur Leo Zagat
Cheat The Dead — Short Story
by B.J. Benson
Official Business — A Department
by The Editor
The “Inside” Of Detective Work — Bullets
by Carter Critz