Speed Detective began in 1934 under the title Spicy Detective, focusing on fast action stories, a bit provocative... perhaps a bit too provocative. Government and industry pressure finally caused Culture Publications to tone down their magazine beginning with the January 1943 issue. They even changed the company name to Trojan Publications. The contents weren't the only thing to change... the title was changed to Speed Detective. The magazine, in spite of its controversial reputation, attracted a surprising variety of top authors, including Robert Leslie Bellem, E. Hoffman Price, Hugh B. Cave, Norvell Page and Arthur Wallace. The February 1947 issue was the last of this long-running series. Speed Detective now returns with vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Book-Length Novel
Cabana Killing
by John Ryan
Without the aid of the girls, Mickey would really have been in a desperate plight. But when everybody else suspected him she remained loyal.
Novelettes And Short Stories
Murder Follows Suicide
by Roger Torrey
Suicide is an unpredictable thing. And the amateur murderer is likely to he equally illogical. Nobody knows those things better than the psychiatrist who specializes in neurotic women!
Half-Size Homicide
by Robert Leslie Bellem
Dan wasn’t even working for the movie star when she slapped his face and fired him right under the nose of the gabbiest gossip columnist in Hollywood.
Trouble Hunter
by Robert A. Garron
While Gene worked, trying to find what was wrong with the refrigerator, he heard the two thugs plotting. Then there was the question of the girl’s part in the set-up.
Murder’s A Good Idea
by Laurence Donovan
With seventy years and fifty millions, old Mike Span had earned the privilege of being temperamental. But when he began to talk about his relatives all murdering each other off...
Special Articles
Signs Of A Swindler
Should Solomons Take A Swig?
