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 returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Feature Novel, Complete In This Issue
Crime Crazy
by Seven Anderton
James Kendall vanished into thin air and gave Masters, the private detective, some real tough going, with murder after murder spotting the trail.
Action-Packed, Novelettes and Short Stories
Fiesta Of Murder
by Clint Murdock
The Carnival was gay but the murder was stark and gruesome, I had to doff my costume and act fast to put my finger on the murderer.
Death Is A Dummy
by Clark Demery
The killer put his beautiful young victim, arrayed at her loveliest, on display right in the center of town, where all could see her!
Spill No Blood
by Tom Stone
She was alone, and scared, on a remote country road. She had me fooled until I found out what a slick operator she really was.
Dive To Doom
by Herbert Carter
When a rich lawyer drives over a cliff, it might be an accident, but in this case his pretty daughter and I agreed it was murder.
Suicide Tip-Off
by Arthur Packer
The cops said it was suicide but “Scoop” Nelson, the demon reporter, had other suspicions and soon proved that it was murder.
Special Feature
The Store Detective
by Sam D. Cohen
Some true and interesting facts about the work of the guardians of law and order in the big mercantile emporiums of the country.
