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.
Crack Detective Stories was a magazine that underwent multiple name changes... eight of them! During the middle of its run, it was known as Crack Detective Stories, but it didn't start out that way. Detective Yarns, as it was first known, made its debut with the June 1938 issue, coming from Columbia Publications. It switched to a character pulp, featuring The Black Hood as of September 1941, and its name changed to Black Hood Detective. Then it became Hooded Detective for two issues until Crack Detective was born in May of 1942. After ten issues a single word was added to the name, and it became Crack Detective Stories. With the November 1949 issue the title was changed to Famous Detective, and then after three issues it became Famous Detective Stories. The final incarnation began in December 1956 with the name Crack Detective and Mystery Stories. This title lasted for four issues. The final issue was July 1957, outlasting most of the other pulp magazines on the market. There were 97 issues published in all. Crack Detective Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Powerful Mystery Novel
Pattern For Murder
by Douglas Stapleton
Bruce Trent returned to his boyhood home to find the threads of oldtime hatred insidiously weaving about him into a web of murder and lynch-mob fury!
Unusual Novelettes
Murder At Face Value
by Frank Kane
How can a nation-wide matinee idol, a man whose face is known to millions, utterly and completely drop out of sight?
The House That Wasn’t There
by Russell Gray
Out of the darkness came the desperate young man whose wife was lost, to lead Henry Willow on a road that led to hell — in his own back yard!
Short Stores
How Dead Was My Valet?
by Henry Norton
After five years in prison for an embezzlement he knew nothing of, Ward Frame returned to find himself facing a murder rap!
Going-Away Present
by Richard Brister
Stopper was being paroled, after serving two years of his sentence. So Whitey wanted to give him something when he left — after all, Stopper had framed Whitey when the cops picked them up...
Corpses Don’t Walk
by Lee Floren
When Joe Manton saw that familiar-looking figure in the saloon, he wondered if old Jake had returned from the dead. Or hadn’t he killed Jake after all?
I Choose Death!
by Robert C. Blackmon
“Before you pull that trigger, Gary, remember — you are making what may be the last choice of your life!”
No Alibi
by T.W. Ford
The only grounds the coppers had for suspecting Bendon of murder was the fact that he had an airtight alibi!
The Man Born Dead
by Stuart Friedman
Beckwith had a perfect murder plot, only, when it backfired, it became a perfect passport to the chair!
