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 Novelet
Fish For Murder
by Wyatt Blassingame
A fiendish bomb plot blasted young Parker into a mystery that proved as dark as the grave which had just claimed the life of his own brother!
Hatful Of Trouble — Complete Novelet
by Roger Fuller
Moody Hackett came into the case looking for plenty of grief!
A’Hunting We Will Go — Complete Novelet
by Edward Churchill
Nick and Sue Burney didn’t like their new roles as Nimrods!
Klump a la Carte — Short Story
by Joe Archibald
Willie washed Finnerty’s dishes and then the fun really began...
Roll Them Bones — Short Story
by Ken Lewis
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to turn up as a grim, sinister ghost!
Catch Me A Killer — Short Story
by Robert Sidney Bowen
When you try to pin a rap on Chet Lacey, it’s time for trouble
The Clue Got Lost — Short Story
by Ray Cummings
Sometimes important evidence turns up in some strange places.
Still Of Night — Short Story
by Will Oursler
“Only the two of us were sitting there in silence, and then —”
Happy Doomsday To You — Short Story
by Robert Leslie Bellem
Lovely Lotus Wang uses her wiles to frame young Henry Soong
Official Business — Department
by The Editor
A friendly department where our readers and the editor meet
Forging A Career
by Samuel Mines
The dramatic, true-life story of a world-famous swindler.
