Death strikes in the night! Murder inside a locked room! For thrills, chills and action galore, readers of the 1930s, 1940s and into the 1950s clamored for a pulp magazine by the name of Thrilling Detective. Thrilling Detective magazine was one of the earliest pulp answers to America's insatiable appetite for mystery and detective tales. It was the first of Ned Pines's long line of pulp magazines, starting in 1931 and running for an amazing 213 issues before closing down in the Summer of 1953. Thrilling Publications was responsible for other long-running pulps such as Startling Stories, The Lone Eagle, Black Book Detective and Thrilling Wonder Stories. Famous pulp characters The Phantom Detective, Captain Future, the Black Bat and Captain Danger, all appeared in other Thrilling publications.
Nearly every Thrilling Detective magazine started off with a book-length mystery novel, and then was followed up by a half-dozen or so shorter stories of thrills and danger. Appearing solely in Thrilling Detective were recurring characters like Doctor Coffin, The Green Ghost, Craig Kennedy, Raffles, G-Man Jones, Mike Shayne, Race Williams and Mr. Death. Some of America's most foremost writers took up their pens to write for the magazine. Names like Arthur J. Burks, Wayne Rogers, H.M. Appel, George Allan Moffatt, Norman A. Daniels, Johnston McCulley, George Fielding Eliot, L. Ron Hubbard, Paul Ernst, Emile C. Tepperman, Edmond Hamilton, Laurence Donovan, Ralph Oppenheim, Robert Sidney Bowen, Henry Kuttner, Murray Leinster, Fredric Brown, Brett Halliday, Carroll John Daly, Louis L'Amour and Bruce Elliott. Thrilling Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
A Complete Mystery Novel
Sabotage
by Berkeley Gray
Norman Conquest, famous English adventurer, and his companion, Joy Everard, clash with crooked munitions makers and dare death to bare a sinister Axis plot!
A Gripping Complete Novelet
You’ve Got To Have Homicide
by W.T. Ballard
Cal Zeiglar, Atlas Studios’ publicity man, plunges into rapid action on a dangerous crime trail — and lands in a double frame!
Thrilling Short Stories
A Simple Case Of Murder
by James Donnelly
The law issues a pick-up order for trouble-shooter Sam Chase’s girl!
The Hostage
by Benton Braden
A farmer’s daughter matches wits with slick city crooks...
Mr. Thomas
by Murray Leinster
The new sheriff is suddenly confronted with a baffling murder.
Confession In Writing
by Wilm Carver
This murderer’s guilt was written on his face!
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Headquarters — A Department
Where readers, writers and the editor meet
