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 Gun And Mr. Smith
By John Godey
Before you plot evil again — you grinning monsters, you tramplers of little men, you slimy carrion crew squabbling over the blood-smeared loot even while your victims gasp for one more breath of outraged life — beware. For there will always be one to smash you. Perhaps one like Rosalie Lamson, whom you would dismiss with raucous, contemptuous laughter. Fragile, demure, innocent, a “lady piano-player,” it would seem that any one of you could crumble her little bones with one hand and so, despising such poor game, you would instead sweep her carelessly aside — unaware that in this mere girl lurked a spirit of such terrible power as could rise up and smother you in the crashing darkness of your own utter destruction!
The Pinball Murders
By Thomas Black
They never make it easy for Old Ironman Delaney, the Chancellor City gun-hawk trying to make like a private eye. They drape a red-haired witch around his neck and then start the murder ball a-rolling. They use a souped-up pinball machine and nobody knows it’s cold-blooded killing until death’s third strike. They scatter senseless clues like torn-in-half C-notes, a blonde hair tied to a key, a torture-crazed girl in a closet, and a pineapple in Delaney’s office to slow him up. It seems he’ll never get to use his famous gun — until they put the snatch to the one person closest to the Delaney heart. Then the Ironman unslings his armpit cannon and heads out to prove that murder works both ways.
