A steely-eyed private dick with an unshaven jaw of granite... a gat of dull gun-metal gray sags heavily under his armpit... he works the seamy underbelly of the city, coming up against squinty-eyed thugs, weasels who value human life less than the coins jingling in their pocket, and red-lipped bimbos with hot breath, wide eyes and long silky legs. The stories are hard, gritty and action-packed. They fairly scream, "pulp!" This was what Private Detective Stories offered beginning with its first issue in June of 1937. It came from the same publisher who brought you Blazing Western, Candid Detective, The Lone Ranger Magazine, Speed Adventure Stories and Speed Mystery. In all, 134 issues were published until the magazine closed in June of 1949. Private Detective Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Feature Novel, Complete In This Issue
Dead Man’s Knock
by Roger Torrey
The girl was having fun with her millions, and Callahan was having fun with the girl. But when he agreed to bodyguard her, he didn’t figure on anyone starting a one-man murder wave!
Novelettes and Short Stories
Galloping Grands
by Fulton Wright
The Flying Dutchman was gone. Many men were dead. Would those bloody debts ever be settled?
Leave It To A Lady
by Stan Warner
He was after one girl, and another girl was after him. Too much crime pays off.
One Redhead Too Many
by Nathan Cobe
A beautiful widow can make murder very imminent!
Death On Demand
by Max Neilson
Try to hide a murderess — and get away with it!
Agent Provocateur
by Randolph Barr
What would you do if a girl bailed you out of jail and asked a favor?
The Missing Link
by John Phillips
There was one way to solve this killing and he liked the girl well enough to try it.
