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
Bullet Trick
by Howard Prince
The mysterious big searchlight was a sort of luminous boomerang — in more ways than one. And the fact that two grimly intent gangsters wanted its secret meant that death was in the offing...
Outstanding Novelettes and Short Stories
Witness To Murder
by James Brent
It sounded like the ticking of a cheap watch inside the suitcase on the depot floor; but the destruction it could cause was part of an ominous plot of terror and hatred.
G-Man Junior
by Joe McCoy
Private-Eye Archer was a little man — so he liked big things. The newspaper-stock swindle, with murder, was big enough for any shamus!
A Matter Of Timing
by Walton Grey
Bruce was a heel. His big mistake was not realizing that there’s a limit even to being a heel.
Don’t Die In Bed
by Charles Saunders
The pen is mightier than the sword — and books can be used as weapons of murder!
Fadeout
by Ray Cummings
They called it a ghost town — and that was about right!
Special Features
Major Smith’s Little Game
by Will Nichols
Death Called For Dolly
by Howard McIntosh
Good short story collection 
