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:
Book-Length Novel — Complete In This Issue
Justifiable Homicide
by Roger Torrey
The sleek fortune-hunter had married himself into getting murdered — and Private-eye Shannon discovered a number of tough or odd characters who were able to have done it!
Feature Novelette
Death On My Hands
by George A. McDonald
When Killer Cain wanted to learn something, he favored direct action — and this trap flung him into plenty!
Shorter Fiction
Ghoul Of My Dreams
by Henry Norton
Having been drowned, she insisted on reappearing mockingly!
Dark Destiny
by Elizabeth Starr
A murderer’s path is no longer of his own choosing.
Bright Dummy
by Ray Cummings
When all the humans were paralyzed, Wilbur knew what to do.
Special Articles
War And The Private Eye
In Colonial Style
