Crack Detective Stories was a magazine that underwent multiple name changes... eight of them! During the middle of its run, it was known as Crack Detective Stories, but it didn't start out that way. Detective Yarns, as it was first known, made its debut with the June 1938 issue, coming from Columbia Publications. It switched to a character pulp, featuring The Black Hood as of September 1941, and its name changed to Black Hood Detective. Then it became Hooded Detective for two issues until Crack Detective was born in May of 1942. After ten issues a single word was added to the name, and it became Crack Detective Stories. With the November 1949 issue the title was changed to Famous Detective, and then after three issues it became Famous Detective Stories. The final incarnation began in December 1956 with the name Crack Detective and Mystery Stories. This title lasted for four issues. The final issue was July 1957, outlasting most of the other pulp magazines on the market. There were 97 issues published in all. Crack Detective Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Complete Book-Length Novel
Green Light for Death
by Frank Kane
Johnny Liddell wasn’t the kind of shamus to be scared away, and when he arrived to find his prospective client murdered but listed as a suicide he knew he’d come to stay — perhaps permanently, on a marble slab!
Plus
One-Way Gift
by Walter Kubilius
For a guy who ran off with a gunman’s gal!
Ferry To A Funeral
by James Blish
And a shoe-shine man against trigger-happy crooks.
According To The Book
by John Lackland
