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 Mystery Novelet
The Second Act Is Murder
By W.T. Ballard
When hideous death stalks, playwright Mark De Cloudt stakes his life in a grim gamble as he strives to snare a killer!
Death in the Wind — Complete Novelet
by Curtiss T. Gardner
Aided by a girl with fighting spirit, George Pawne takes desperate risks as he pits himself against a hijacking killer’s machinations!
Down to Danger — Complete Novelet
by J. Lane Linklater
For the sake of Linda Heaton, business man Dick Graney sets a trap in the orange groves to snare an assassin — and gets a big surprise!
A Corsage for the Corpse — Short Story
by Bill Morgan
Claudius Coe’s knowledge of botany comes in mighty handy.
Still Waters Mean Murder — Short Story
by Emil J. Krukar
Jim Strell proves he’s the fightingest of hackmen.
Slay That Hoofer Down — Short Story
by Fergus Truslow
Phil Ragan throws out a line of gags to hang guilt on a killer.
Dead Man’s Gift — Short Story
by Ben Frank
Jim Eddie is sure there’s no flaw in his perfect murder.
Opals Are Unlucky — Short Story
by C.S. Montanye
Dave McClain of Homicide tackles a tough hotel murder case.
Headquarters — A Department
Where Readers, Writers and the Editor Meet
