During the heyday of pulp magazines, the newsstands were constantly filled with detective fiction. Sometimes the magazines ran for years, while other times they struggled to reach an audience. One of these short-lived magazines devoted to detective fiction was Complete Detective. It hit the newsstands with the May 1938 issue and continued on an irregular schedule for six issues, closing with the October 1939 issue. Western Fiction Publishing (aka Red Circle Magazines) brought together a very respectable stable of authors of crime fiction, each issue filled with thrills and action galore. But competition and poor distribution killed off early this pulp magazine which promised tense plotting and nail-biting thrills. Complete Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
2 Tense Murder Novels
Murder, More Or Less
by Edward S. Ronns
It was murder, one way or another, and maybe Blake should have just called in the cops. Maybe he shouldn’t have given a damn about the gal he loved, and the money-killer who’d put the .42 ten-shot on her...
Crime Connoisseur
by William Edward Hayes
On a plain killing you call in a flatfoot, on a double demise you ring up a shamus, when it’s murder mayhem you contact a crime connoisseur!
3 Smashing Novelettes
Death Is A Gold-Digger
by B.B. Fowler
It was simply a typical news picture of a luscious blonde, but it told Steve Butler where a quarter-million dollars had gone, and why a heel will commit homicide!
She Wanted To Be A Cop
by Eric Howard
Her grandpa had been a cop, her daddy was a cop, her brother would be a cop — did that make Peggy O’Neal a cop?
Frame For A Lady
by Robert W. Thompson
Trouble? There was no trouble. A guy had just got bumped off, that’s all, and Nash would just lose his fiancée if he didn’t bag the butcher!
2 Thrilling Short Stories
Killers Come Cheap
by Omar Gwinn
The toughest dick in town, they called Johnny Rawson. The guy with the fists. Moreno, king-pin gambler, racketeer, murderer, said: To hell with Johnny Rawson!
Don’t Doubt A Dick
by Brent North
Detective Jim Melton faced this choice: a life more horrible than death, his body broken, his sight gone — or the unthinkable shame of licking the boots of a gangster, literally, before the eyes of his bride!
