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:
Suspense-Ridden Mystery Novel
Body, Body, Who’s Got The Body?
by Cliff Campbell
It was a perfect frame. The radios were blaring away with descriptions of the blonde daughter of Jaycee Moon, reported missing; there was a blonde corpse, answering these descriptions in Simeon Cross’ apartment. Only he’d never seen the girl before, dead or alive. But the payoff in grim irony came when after going through hell to rid himself of the body, he found himself in an equally mad scramble to get it back!
Two Powerful Novelets
Front Page Guy
by Arthur Mann
It wasn’t enough that Clay Murdock suddenly found himself in St. Louis, when he thought he was in Chicago, but he couldn’t remember any instructions from his paper as to what he should do there. Then a scrap of conversation led him onto the Pleasure Queen for the biggest story he’d ever tackled!
A Clean Nose
by Frederick C. Painton
“You’re young, and bright, and full of ideals, Rookie. But ask any of the men who have been around; it doesn’t pay to cross up political bosses. If you report a gambling house more than twice, and nothing’s done about it — take a hint. Keep your nose clean, or you’ll find yourself broken, busted — or worse!”
Short Stories
Murder Wore A Sealskin Coat
by Jay Karth
Death stalked silently as the fingers of cold at this lonely radio station, for somewhere here was the long-lost map to a fabulous forgotten treasure!
Death Comes Walking
by Henry G. Hornlein
They called himself “Terrible Terry” and Terry Donovan lived up to his dark reputation the night he went out into the fog to find the man who’d crippled him and slain his sweetheart’s father!
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