Speed Mystery began life as Spicy Mystery Stories in July 1934. But apparently there was just a bit too much spice in those pulp tales, because government and industry pressure finally force the publisher, Culture Publications, to mend their ways. In January 1943 they changed the name of the company to Trojan Publications, and the magazine title to Speed Mystery. Gone were the slightly racy mystery stories, and in their place more mainstream mysteries. 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 magazine published its last issue in March 1946, after nineteen issues under the newer title. Speed Mystery now returns with vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Feature Novelette, Complete In This Issue
Death Calls From Burma
by Edwin Truett
Among the worst of oriental demons were the naapis, who demanded sacrifice, suicide, murder, and other things of nameless terror...
Shorter Fiction
Telegram For Wiffin
by Betty Cummings
He could discover no meaning in life, until he became an unwilling accomplice in murder.
Crazy House
by Hugh Speer
Was that strange child in the Louisiana Canebrakes a creature of the unknown? Dr. Gabrieli achieved a dramatic answer.
The Wrath Of Onoko
by S.E. Waldron
Fur trader Joe Lucas betrayed the power of the gods.
Hot Stuff
by Lew Merrill
Tom Trumble, tramp printer, had had many adventures. But none like this one — when it seemed he would take a framed rap for a killing.
Last Assignment
by Elizabeth Starr
He had an eye for bizarre murder eases — but — this one —!
Gate Of Death
by Hugh Speer
The greatest dramatic crisis of his life confronted Dr. Gabriel, when the Army assigned him to his native Jugoslavia.
The Long Way Down
by Breton Hall
After five years in prison for the folly of a cruel woman, he wanted to kill!
