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.
As the magazine title promised, each issue of this pulp contained two complete and unedited detective novels. Fiction House publishers, through their Real Adventures Publishing imprint, bought up the reprint rights to detective books that had already seen publication in hardback book form, a practice which allowed them to obtain the previously-printed books much cheaper. Radio's famous "Mr. and Mrs. North" detective series began as a series of print books, six of which appeared in the Two Complete Detective Books magazine. The first of Two Complete Detective Books was released in the Winter 1939 issue. Two complete books for a quarter was quite a bargain, and the magazine was popular with customers. It lasted for 76 issue, and printed the final magazine in its run with the Spring 1954 issue. Two Complete Detective Books returns in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Corpse De Ballet
By Lucy Cores
Ah, the ballet! What color, what beauty, what drama! How lithely the men leap! How gracefully the girls prance on their toes! And now — the star! The great, internationally-famous Izlomin — brilliant, and yet shadowed, haunted by tragedy. But — where is he? With growing fear they search for him. And then — they find him, doing a hideous little dance of his own, high in the air backstage... a rope around his neck. And thus Captain Torrent of Homicide and sweet little Toni Ney of the Globe change from ardent lovers of the dance to grim students of murder — the cold, slashing killer who stalked behind the scenery and lurked under the painted masks — finding in the throbbing riot of the ballet the perfect setting for his own vicious plans.
Barren Heritage
By Lavinia R. Davis
There was something ominous about that gaunt and lonely mansion amid the forbidding wilds of the Jersey Pine Barrens. And young Cecily Wayne’s timidity grew as she went up the dark driveway; not even the thought of kindly Cousin Walt Lathrop could dispel her childhood fear of stern and icy Cousin Edith. But all this was nothing to the sudden dread that exploded through the old halls with the inexplicable death of loyal Timmons, the butler. That mounted with the strange and seemingly-unrelated killing of simple-minded Gat Bowler. That reached its peak of stark, ravening terror as Captain Wescoat, of Army Intelligence, went into action — and ugly death stood snarling against the ancient walls, at bay!
