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.
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 publicaions.
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:
Featured Novel
The Whispering Reed
by John Cole
The psychiatrist’s lips were sealed — but the secrets he knew crept out of hiding, erupting in a strange volcano of violence
Pieces of Hate — Complete Novelet
by Stewart Sterling
It was firebug weather, and Marshal Pedley expected a blaze — but he didn’t bargain for a holocaust of conspiracy and murder!
The Golden Fix — Complete Novelet
by Walt Sheldon
Maybe John Willard did take a bribe once — but that didn’t stop him from moving in on racketeers who asked for trouble
Free to Murder — Complete Novelet
by Norman A. Daniels
There was one condition under which convict Eric Vance could gain his freedom — by agreeing to kill a man!
Sob Sister — Short Story
by T.T. Flynn
The lady was dynamite — and O’Conner carried a match
Some Dolls are Dumb — Short Story
by Jack Kofoed
Beautiful Maggy Wheeler tried to get away with murder
Locale for Murder — Short Story
by Robert L. Johnstone
Fortune hunter Blackmount selected Hawaii as an ideal spot
Miracle on 9th Street — Short Story
by Day Keene
Two harness bulls had to face a killer with a machine gun
Home is Where the Hearse is — Short Story
by William Knoles
Typhoon Townsend was the big blow that brought Herbert Hotspur home
The Ratskin Cap — A True Story
by Carter Critz
Crime Capers — Feature
by Harold Heifer
Prison Patter — Feature
by Bess Ritter
It’s the Law — Feature
by Mark Knight
Two Types of Arsonists — Feature
by William Carter
Recent Court Rulings — Feature
by Joseph C. Stacey
