Death strikes in the night! Murder inside a locked room! For thrills, chills and action galore, readers of the 1930s, 1940s and into the 1950s clamored for a pulp magazine by the name of Thrilling Detective. Thrilling Detective magazine was one of the earliest pulp answers to America's insatiable appetite for mystery and detective tales. It was the first of Ned Pines's long line of pulp magazines, starting in 1931 and running for an amazing 213 issues before closing down in the Summer of 1953. Thrilling Publications was responsible for other long-running pulps such as Startling Stories, The Lone Eagle, Black Book Detective and Thrilling Wonder Stories. Famous pulp characters The Phantom Detective, Captain Future, the Black Bat and Captain Danger, all appeared in other Thrilling publications.
Each Thrilling Detective magazine started off with a book-length mystery novel, and then was followed up by a half-dozen or so shorter stories of thrills and danger. Appearing solely in Thrilling Detective were recurring characters like Doctor Coffin, The Green Ghost, Craig Kennedy, Raffles, G-Man Jones, Mike Shayne, Race Williams and Mr. Death. Some of America's most foremost writers took up their pens to write for the magazine. Names like Arthur J. Burks, Wayne Rogers, H.M. Appel, George Allan Moffatt, Norman A. Daniels, Johnston McCulley, George Fielding Eliot, L. Ron Hubbard, Paul Ernst, Emile C. Tepperman, Edmond Hamilton, Laurence Donovan, Ralph Oppenheim, Robert Sidney Bowen, Henry Kuttner, Murray Leinster, Fredric Brown, Brett Halliday, Carroll John Daly, Louis L'Amour and Bruce Elliott. Thrilling Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Complete Book-Length Novel
Claws Of Murder
by Allan K. Echols
Sinister talons of grim death reach menacingly for innocent victims in this exciting mystery!
Complete Novelettes
Here Comes McBride!
by C.K.M. Scanlon
You’ll thrill to this smashing, action-packed yarn of cold-blooded murder aboard ship!
Vengeance
by S. Gordon Gurwit
Follow Weasel Sullivan, crack detective, on the trail of a grisly killer in this gripping drama of gruesome death.
Thrilling Short Stories
Swift Revenge
by Johnston McCulley
A Nemesis of Crime gets the drop on his enemies...
A Dash Of Color
by Taylor Bynum
There’s more than one way of breaking down an alibi!
Meet The Cyclone
by Harold A. Davis
Murphy thrives on danger — and smacks up against plenty!
The Kid Detective
by George Allan Moffatt
Jimmy Gordon tackles the lair of Louie Marina.
Special Features
Murder Of A Recluse
by Detective Dunn
Can you solve this puzzling mystery baffler?
Headquarters — A Department
Where readers and the editor meet.
