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:
A Complete Mystery Novel
Death Makes A Man Mad
By Laurence Donovan
When mysterious murder stalked, Airlines Pilot Jim Rock went right into action with swinging fists — and took plenty of chances in his fight to unravel a sinister riddle!
Let Me Kill You Tenderly — Complete Novelet
by Robert Sidney Bowen
When sudden death strikes, Detective Chet Lacey hastens to heed the siren call of duty — but not the call of a siren!
The Sign Of Murder — Complete Novelet
by Wayland Rice
Private Detective Andy Riggs tackles a grim and baffling crime puzzle at a mountain chateau of evil, bewildering mystery!
Where There’s A Willie There’s A Way — Short Story
by Joe Archibald
Willie Klump tries to discover what makes a killer tick
Something Old — Something New — Short Story
by F.R. Read
A young scientific sleuth and an old-time sheriff join forces
Baldy And The Dead Southpaw — Short Story
by Jack Kofoed
They said Lefty Waldron was a suicide — so Simmons investigated
Official Business — A Department
Where readers and the editor meet
