Senator John Midworth was at the peak of a presidential boom when the bombshell burst, hurling him into limbo and at the same time giving Detective Richard Curtis Van Loan a mysterious problem of crime to fathom!
Paul Chadwick was one of several Pulp authors whose output includes stories for The Phantom Detective. Chadwick also created his own characters, however, including Wade Hammond. A detective just like The Phantom Detective, Hammond confronts more arcane mysteries, those which seem to have possibly supernatural or science fiction-based origins. Even though The Phantom Detective normally doesn’t take on these kinds of foes, the way Chadwick tightly constructs a mystery is evident both in his Hammond stories and his work on The Phantom Detective.
Another contributor to the Phantom Detective stories also made his name in Pulp Fiction in a much more ambitious series, one which he created himself. Emile C. Tepperman, like the majority of pulp authors, made a career in Pulp by being skilled in essentially writing whatever story an editor requested to fill up empty pages in a magazine. This meant that Tepperman wrote across multiple genres and in his career contributed work to The Phantom Detective as well as other characters. Tepperman will be best remembered, however, for being the genius behind the science fiction like apocalyptic pulp series Operator #5. Known primarily for the multiple part The Purple Invasion war epic, Tepperman took Pulp Fiction where it had yet to go with Operator #5, combining the traditional Pulp Hero with a thinly veiled spy story which was actually a science fiction thriller epic.
Candidate for Death was originally published in the Fall 1952 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
