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 its final year, it dropped the word "Stories" from its title. In all, 134 issues were published until the magazine closed in December of 1950. 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
Murder’s Never Easy
by Roger Torrey
Even rich girls can’t afford this crime wave, but the two detectives have a grim holiday.
Long Novelette
Murder In The Making
by Dale Boyd
She was a murder walking around, waiting to be committed...
Short Stories
Corpse Cross
by Robert Leslie Bellem
Ha thought he had learned what loyalty was, but he had another lesson in store.
Big Game
by C.A.M. Donne
She had a charmed life, but Destiny doesn’t believe in charms.
Killer Beware
by Ralph Carle
She was willing to provide an alibi for the most vicious killer in town!
Wedding Bells
by John Wayne
They had all a man could look for in women — and something besides.
