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.
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 Publicaions 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:
Feature Novelette
Murder Before Breakfast
By Roger Torrey
He was in the jail when they shot him. There was no question “how?” but nobody could guess “why?” In the brains of three smart girls lay most of the secret!
The Dame Dies Twice
By Robert Leslie Bellem
Somewhere in that crowd of more than a hundred extras, carpenters’ juicers, technicians, and what not, Dan knows there is a man who killed Lyssa! But how is he to be found?
The Bigger They Are —!
Sawdust Queen
By E. Hoffmann Price
An industrial dick never thought he’d be trying to keep an old inventor from marrying a young girl... only to find somebody had settled that with a bullet...
Dame In Dutch
By John Ryan
It was little more than a hunch, but, if the girl hadn’t committed suicide, why was she dressed in her prettiest dress? Or was this the exception to prove the rule?
Wooden Overcoat
By Walter Cook
The night club singer told the detective she wasn’t calling him in on a case of murder, but it didn’t take long to prove she was wrong!
Crime Team
Calling Copper