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:
The Private Eye
By Cleve F. Adams
Take a tough mining town and two copper magnates who are mixing murder with mining. Add an odd assortment of grafters, shady police, oily politicos, patriotic Poles, and slick stock market riggers. Sprinkle with a few bullets and a handful of dynamite. Spice with Mexican nightclub entertainers and smart dames who know, even as the original Eve, the purpose for which an apple was designed. Stir vigorously. Serve up to John. J. Shannon, detective extraordinary for those who need the services of a private eye sharp enough to penetrate a tank. The result? As the glamorous Miss Frances McGowan expresses it in the last paragraph of this book: “It’s all a part of the great Shannon tradition. Never a dull moment.”
Satan Has Six Fingers
By Vera Kelsey
From the moment when Penelope Paget saw the slumped figure in the empty subway train at midnight to the last crashing climax in a drawing room in Rio de Janeiro, she was caught up in a mass of cross currents, misstatements of fact, and bewildering emotional reactions. She had to undertake the delivery to Rio of a small clay elephant, which she concealed in a turban wound around her head. Once arrived in Rio, she found herself sought after by people she had never seen before and almost deliberately kept in the dark by people she thought she knew very well. She heard the legend of Satan’s Sixth Finger and she saw a dead man whose body mysteriously disappeared only to be traced by scientific research in a glass factory. A novel with an authentic Brazilian background, written by an authority on our South American neighbor.
