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:
Meeting by Moonlight
By Raymond Knotts
An old wound had put a mean gimp in Jim Hale’s leg; promotion had slung him behind a desk. But he still felt like a police reporter. And there was something in Caroline Britt’s eyes that made him sit up straighter at that gay dinner party. Yet it was Caroline’s husband, a hundred miles or more away, who died, horribly and alone. And then Mr. Britt’s lawyer got his share of the flying lead... And Jim found himself plunked down square in the midst of a seething murder caldron. Alfred Britt had been hunted by mysterious European forces — for something he had done — not Caroline. Then why was Caroline herself suddenly subjected to strange attacks? What dreadful price was being sought of her by Julien Tidesciu of the Yugoslav underground? What had happened to Dusty McMillin, Britt’s bodyguard? But the big question was: How many more luckless ones were to get in a ravening killer’s way before the last body was strapped into the electric chair?
Roll, Jordan, Roll
By Dorothy Park Clark
When lovely little Tara married into the Jordans of the Kentucky blue-grass country she knew into what a tangled web of loyalties she was stepping. Aristocratic and hot-tempered, danger only knit them tighter. And so, when one of them was brutally murdered, they went proudly on to the horse show, fiercely denying what they knew in their hearts — that one of them was a killer! But — who? Then a gun cracked spitefully in the show-ring and another of them tumbled lifeless to the tanbark. Slowly they turned smoldering eyes on Tara. In horror she saw the evidence being built up against her — her, the most devoted, the most loyal of them all! But — she was not a Jordan, was she? Inexorably, suspicion and hate closed her in a numbing circle — until only one stood by her — Luke McKey, her old flame. His stubborn refusal to believe in Tara’s guilt drove the murderer wild with despair, knowing that there could be only one end to this parade of corpses!
