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
Red-Hot Murder
by Roger Torrey
Even the guy I was trying to clear in this murder-arson mess was an unsavory character. And I didn’t like any of the other suspects any better. But when they killed my gardener, that made it personally interesting to me...
Feature Novelette
Pale Mr. Ortiro
by Robert A. Garron
Mark Hilliard hated the man, and feared him, though he had no idea who he was. Strangely blanched, looking like something long drowned, Ortiro carried on his fantastic chase.
Shorter Stories
Funeral Fade-Out
by Robert Leslie Bellem
The case looked like one that Dan Turner might have to write off in red ink — right out of his own arteries!
Weather Forecast — Snow For Slaying
by Rex Whitechurch
Doc Black had two hobbies: criminology and forecasting the weather. But only Doc knew how to combine the two.
Filed: Unsolved
by E. Starr
Six years ago Detective Harris had had a fleeting glimpse of a man’s face. But to his logical mind, that was enough.
