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.
Thrills, mystery and action! Popular Detective magazine really lived up to its name. It was one of the longest running detective pulps and contained some of the best of detective fiction around. November 1934 saw the inaugural issue, coming from Better Publications, the publisher of all those Thrilling pulps... Thrilling Detective, Thrilling Mystery, Thrilling Western, Thrilling Adventures, Thrilling Wonder Stories and many others without the word "Thrilling" in the title, as well. The Black Bat, Captain Future, The Green Ghost, the Phantom Detective... all these were from Better Publications. Popular Detective was offered monthly until 1938, then bi-monthly. And within those 128 pages, could be found authors like C.K.M. Scanlon, Frederick C. Painton, L. Ron Hubbard, Johnston McCulley, Leslie Charteris, and many others of top-notch talent. The magazine finally folder in the fall of 1953, after an amazing 133 issues of quality detective fiction. Popular Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Featured Novelet
Murder off Honduras
by David Dodge
A group of poker-ploying fishermen aboard Bill Butler’s boat face a swift showdown with doom when a “dead man’s hand” mysteriously turns up!
The Dead Don’t Die — Complete Novelet
by Bruno Fischer
When Alvin Robson discovers the bones of murdered lovers in an eerie setting, he marks himself and his girl for a similar doom!
The Only Way Out — Short Story
by William Degenhard
Gambler’s bookkeeper Dwyer finally gets his accounts straight
A Heel and His Loot — Short Story
by Donn Mullally
Racketbuster Dooley runs into a lonely hearts extortion fraud
Eye for an Eye — Short Story
by Morris Cooper
William Guerney must catch a killer — without lifting a finger
Fists for Mucura — Short Story
by Arthur J. Burks
Deep in the Brazilian jungle. Engineer Lever goes on a manhunt
Cheesecake and Willie — Short Story
by Joe Archibald
Private Eye Klump is no Napoleon — but meets his own Waterloo!
Official Business — Feature
by The Editor
A friendly department where our readers and the editor meet
The False Mayor — Feature
by Jackson Hite
The true story of how Father Flanagan once solved a mystery!
