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.
Weird menace combined with detective tales... that was what Star Detective Magazine offered. And boy did it deliver! Beginning with the inaugural May 1935 issue, readers were treated to ghouls and gats, magic and mayhem, manhunting and machine-gunning, crime and coffins. These were smashing two-fisted action stories that were published on a quarterly basis until 1939. At that time, the name was changed to Uncanny Tales and the magazine continued for a little over a year... five issues to be exact. At that point, the genre seemed to lose steam, and the magazine folded, as did many of the other shudder pulps that saturated the newsstands. There were 16 issues published in all. Star Detective Magazine returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
“Lady Killer”
by Donald Barr Chidsey
A telephone tip turns out to be an invitation to a bullet shower for a couple of dicks.
Snake Ride — Novelette
by Eugene Cunningham
Rolston follows a reptilian trail that leads to murder and $750,000 swag.
Shadow In Blood
by Richard Warmser
The D.A. plants a murder rap on Detective Chris Hanigan and the big dick does some slam-bang sleuthing to turn the tables and save a hatful of sparklers in the bargain.
Private Steal
by James Hall
Death rides the Florida highways and a carload of gangsters take a oneway ride.
Smuggle-Proof
by Donald Northwood
A gang-buster deluxe shows the coast how to wipe out a baby crime wave.
Coffin Needed — Novelette
by John Carlisle
The big mob realized they’d started something they couldn’t finish when big dick Curry straps on his gun and runs amuck.
Direct Action
by T.K. Hawley
They brought in a lie-detector to solve double murder — but Danny Walker had his own ideas and they called for two fists and a ready gun.
Thieves And Nerves — Novelette
by Charles Tenney Jackson
There’s no room for nerves when murdering and thieving is your occupation.
