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.
Variety Detective Magazine, and the key word in the title was "variety." Each issue promised twelve stories for 10¢, which offered readers a variety that other pulp magazines could rarely deliver. These were hard-bitten detective mysteries that grabbed the reader from the first paragraph, and didn't let go until the very last word. Publisher Ace Magazines, aka Periodical House, were also responsible for other pulp fare such as Captain Hazzard and Ten Detective Aces. The series began with the August 1938 issue and changed its name to Lone Wolf Detective after eight issues. After another eight issues, the magazine closed because of wartime paper rationing. The final issue was April 1941. Variety Detective Magazine returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Death Hogs The Spotlight — Novel
by Ralph Powers
Murder and lore enmesh Reporter Kirk in the web of a swingster Romeo, a platinum chorine, and a gutter-bred racketeer.
Homicide On High
by Arthur Flint
Only his boss’s death would erase years of frustration.
The Pipeline Juggernaut
by Cliff Howe
Mutiny and mystery ride the torrent of black gold.
Phantom Applause
by Ronald Flagg
To a ham actor, any role looks like Big Time.
The Miniature Coffin
by Jack Archer
A tiny coffin links Detective Patten to a full-size one.
Model For Manslaughter
by Paul Chadwick
Two bookworms turn on a greedy killer.
Scientific Suicide
by Franklin Trant
Detective Carson learns how ghastly death can be.
The Haunting Clue
by Wm. A. Langford
Starr’s sixth attempted jailbreak is assured — by doom.
Treachery Island
by Leon Dupont
A murder witness and an assassin are marooned on a lighthouse island.
The Grim Reaper’s Bait
by James Francis Bonnell
This gay gambler plays double or nothing.
Vengeance Of The Phoenix
by Chester Brant
The war taught Hawtry the cheapness of human life.
A Gentleman At Large
by Eric Lennox
He made an art of his rather shady profession.