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 Novel
Saint Overboard
by Leslie Charteris
A half-clad girl fleeing for her life draws Simon Templar into a dangerous adventure that promises death — or worse!
Six Other Stories
Two Bullets
by B.J. Benson
The girl held a gun, and said she had killed a man — but there was no blood on the corpse!
Prison Sweet Prison
by R. Van Taylor
Johnny Barr was thankful for the locks on his cell which kept outsiders out!
A Joke On The Old Man
by Randall Jones
A pair of playful gangsters turn “gagsters.”
Baby Needs No Shoes
by Benton Braden
Baby needs no shoes — especially not of the concrete variety!
One Stormy Night
by Peirson Ricks
First, they found the warm corpse, and then, behind them, they heard the splashing footsteps of the killer!
Cabin For Two
by Robert Aldrich
All Jim had to do to get the woman that he wanted was — kill her husband!
Features
Inside Stuff
by Stewart Sterling
The Alibi Club
by Calaboose Cal
Detective Movie News
by Ann Kennedy
Calling Bulldog Drummond, Ace in the Hole, Secret of Convict Lake, Never Trust a Gambler
Gold In Your Shoe
by Bess Ritter
Useless Information
by The Snooper
Odd facts about crime and crooks
The Thing In The Cage — True Story
by Harold Helfer
If a man were soft-hearted, would it prove he couldn’t be a killer?
Slender Clues
by Carter Critz
