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 Complete Novelet
Murder in Morocco
By Frederick C. Painton
Death lights the fuse while Steve Hilary combats the fiendish machinations of a powerful munitions monarch!
Other Full-Length Novelets
Death Beach
by Donald Bayne Hobart
Murder stalks a deserted shore as Bill Merton answers a call for help — from a corpse!
Hundred Grand Libel
by Dale Clark
A hot murder flash leads reporter Mike Cluny on the torture-trail of a blackmail racket scoop!
Five Thrilling Short Stories
Farm Kid
by Edward P. Norris
All rats were the same to Whitey Crocket
No Place Likes Homicide
by Joe Archibald
Willie Klump plops into a hornet’s nest of crime
Obvious Suspect
by John L. Benton
A Kit Carson of the big town whips his weight in thugs!
Half An Inch
by Robert Leslie Bellem
Trenehan takes the trail of a mysterious, ruthless killer
Doom Raids The Morgue
by Joseph E. Nichols
Old Pat lost his grip — and slipped into a murder frame
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Official Business — A Department
Where readers and the editor meet
