Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
Thrills, mystery and action! Popular Detective magazine really lived up to its name. It was one of the longest running detective pulps and contained some of the best of detective fiction around. November 1934 saw the inaugural issue, coming from Better Publications, the publisher of all those Thrilling pulps... Thrilling Detective, Thrilling Mystery, Thrilling Western, Thrilling Adventures, Thrilling Wonder Stories and many others without the word "Thrilling" in the title, as well. The Black Bat, Captain Future, The Green Ghost, the Phantom Detective... all these were from Better Publications. Popular Detective was offered monthly until 1938, then bi-monthly. And within those 128 pages, could be found authors like C.K.M. Scanlon, Frederick C. Painton, L. Ron Hubbard, Johnston McCulley, Leslie Charteris, and many others of top-notch talent. The magazine finally folder in the fall of 1953, after an amazing 133 issues of quality detective fiction. Popular Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Featured Novelet
The Hands of Mr. Prescott
by Bruno Fischer
A hitchhiker’s weekend bag suddenly plunges Lester Miles into a whirlpool of dark, grim mystery and makes him the target of killers!
Married To Murder — Complete Novelet
by Norman A. Daniels
Surprisingly, Dan Adair weds his brother’s suspected killer!
Dying To See Willie — Short Story
by Joe Archibald
The crook climbed right into bed with Klump, but left a clue
The Moon Turned Red — Short Story
by Willis Graham
Therar had personal reasons for mixing into the Randolph case
Fit To Kill — Short Story
by Stewart Sterling
Rixey takes his radio kit along to tune in on Larry the Gong
Day’s Work — Short Story
by Roger Dee
Walt Penner bucks a badger game with some special trimmings,
Official Business — Feature
by The Editor
A friendly department where our readers and the editor meet
The “Inside” Of Detective Work — Feature
by Carter Critz
Three types of fingerprints — visible, plastic, and latent
Murder Of The Bridge Expert — Feature
by Jackson Hite
The amazing true story of the unsolved Elwell death mystery