There could seemingly never be enough detective fiction magazines. Readers clamored for more hard-hitting action, more flinty-eyed investigators, and more shifty underground mobsters. So another detective pulp was launched, rather late in the game, in March of 1951 when other pulp magazines were closing down. And it hit it off with its reading audience, selling enough copies to remain on newsstands until February of 1958 when the era of pulp magazines was at an end. The magazine was published by Columbia Publications, who had been in the pulp business since the mid-1930s. Some of its other magazine included Crack Detective Stories, Famous Western, Hooded Detective, and Science Fiction Quarterly. Smashing Detective magazine ran a grand total of 33 issues, and provided readers with quarterly (and for two years bi-monthly) issues of murder and mystery. Smashing Detective Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Powerhouse Feature Novels
Keep The Corpse Hot
by T.W. Ford
“I’ll play dead, while you figure out who wanted to kill me!”
So Dead The Rose
by Sim Albert
It lay clutched in her hand, waiting to tell its own story.
Suspenseful Novelet
Gunning For Death
by James L. Harte
When his best friend is killed, Dan Wilkins seeks a traitor...
Thrilling Short Stories
First Come, First Killed
by D.A. Kyle
A free corpse went with this house Paul Corey was supposed to sell.
Score None For The Chair
by Tom Thursday
Based on a true case, this is the story of a cop who proved innocence.
You’ll Kill The People
by Richard Brister
Buddy Burton’s life was in TV — and, perhaps, his death, too!
This Side Up!
by John Ladd
No one ever had a kind word for this kid, who now turned killer.
Double-crosser
by Johnston McCulley
Danny Blure had to move fast, because he was marked by the mob.
The Mountain Comes To Mohammed
by Amelia R. Long
It was such an obvious switcheroo that the police were stymied.
Death By Gas — A Brain-Teaser
by J.J. Mathews
Butterfly Of Death
by Harold Gluck
It had all the earmarks of a practical joke, but the murder was real!
Ghost-Town Slays
by James E. Hungerford
They were making a movie about Halpin, then Halpin returns...
For This Reason
by John Thomas Urwin
Brack’s widow was sure that her husband had been playing around...
