While gambling guns blast, the Phantom and Muriel Havens ante up for a game with big stakes — and when Dick Van Loan serves his term in Sing Sing as a stand-in for a grim killer, everybody tries to get into the act!
With the final issue in Spring 1953, a legendary character’s original adventures came to an end. With a multitude of authors contributing to his canon, The Phantom Detective managed to overall maintain the basic concept that made him popular from the beginning. A man without purpose finds his mission in fighting crime, usually at the street level, battling gangs, corruption, and murder. Unlike many pulp characters, The Phantom Detective was a hero to multiple generations.
The Phantom Detective had 170 novel length pulp adventures over a period of nearly twenty years. When the magazine ceased publication in 1953, the character seemingly disappeared from the public consciousness. This was due in part to the decline and eventual end of Thrilling Publications. As Publisher Ned Pines divided up his company and sold bits and pieces to various entities, many of those companies and individuals often turned right around and resold their purchases as well. This led to copyrights being overlooked, forgotten, and never renewed in many instances, including said copyright of The Phantom Detective. Aside from the actual magazines being bought and traded among creators, reprints of The Phantom Detective showed up off and on for decades. With the character entering the public domain, an interest in new stories featuring the character has also arisen, leading more and more reprints of the original stories to be produced.
Odds on Death was originally published in the Spring 1953 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
