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 Novel
The Darkened Room
By Bruce Elliott
Who would notice when he slipped into the smoky room? In that strange dream world — what was a little murder?
The Kiss-and-Kill Murders — Novel
by Stewart Sterling
“Produce or else!” the store president told Don Marko. And Marko did produce — the limp corpses of two girls!
The Cop War — A Novelet
by Philip Weck
He wasn’t a cop any more on the other side of the city line. He was just another guy — and six feet of target...
Set a Thief — Short Story
By Robert Carlton
Such a Pretty Corpse — Short Story
By Francis Hamilton
Success Story — Short Story
By Frank D. Millman
A Touch of Marion — Short Story
By L.F. Guttridge
The Trouble Twins — Short Story
By Bill Carroll
Inside Stuff — Special Feature
By D.V. Guilder
Bureau of Missing Persons — A Department
Assorted Mayhem — Special Feature
By Harold Helfer
Long Arm of the Law — Special Feature
By Jack Benton
Detective Movie News — Special Feature
By Ann Kennedy
The Black Cross — Special Feature
By Will Cole