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 Complete Mystery Novel
Sinister House
by Walt Bruce
The mysterious Dr. Zeng Tse-Lin wrestles with a weird crime problem when a wraith stalks the abandoned old Vorbling mansion — and real bullets fly!
Two Complete Novelets
The Confidential Bodyguard
by Dale Clark
Steve Kelly takes on a job of lady protecting, and steps into the middle of a slight case of murder for profit...
Mind Over Murder
by Laurence Donovan
The tonsorial detective swings into a maze of slaughter when he seeks to crack the mystery of a hit-and-run death!
Thrilling Short Stories
Crucible Of Tragedy
by Edward O’Connor
Oil-well driller Danny Breen is tested as by fire
Boner
by Frederic Brown
A loyal American has the last laugh on a threatening Nazi!
Homicide Squab
by Joe Archibald
Detective Willie Klump’s girl friend flabbergasts Satchelfoot Kelly
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Official Business — A Department
Where readers and the editor meet