Action, action and action... in spades! Nothing subtle about it, each issue of Detective Short Stories featured ten-to-twelve relentless, shameless, fierce action tales. Manvis Publications, the same publisher who brought you Ka-Zar, Amazing Detective Cases, American Sky Devils, Uncanny Stories, Six-Gun Western, Marvel Science Stories and many others, brought out the first issue of Detective Short Stories in August of 1937 and continued dishing the pulp thrills until the magazine folded with the October 1943 issue, yet another victim of wartime paper shortages. For twenty-five issues, readers got a wallop of exciting adventure for their thin dime. Detective Short Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Novelettes
Case of the Doomed Debutante
by Roger Torrey
It was murder, and there were clues, and plenty of suspects, and he’d probably break the case pronto, but Johnny still didn’t like it... Maybe if the girl hadn’t been the only one with no alibi he’d have liked it better, and if she hadn’t been so damned good-looking!
The Corpse That Came to Stay
by Edward Ronns
This was one corpse that could make Mark Gallant too much trouble, for a down-on-his-luck dick didn’t take eighty grand out of the bank unless he signed for it in blood!
Short Stories
The Man Who Hallowed Homicide
by Lawrence Treat
The heel had more millions than a flatfoot’s got buttons on his uniform, but he still didn’t have enough money to buy murder!
The Candid Cadavers
by Eaton K. Goldthwaite
So a couple of people killed a couple of people, so Turkey Taylor got his first client — so it’s just too bad when the cops have to call in a private dick to do their dirty work!
Too Tough and Too Mean
by Eric Howard
Oh hell yes, Dunne was mad, but he wasn’t the cold-blooded killer he should have been, he wasn’t the merciless law hound who always got his man!
Murder Plus
by John Wallace
The kid was the one who’d go kill-crazy, Nick knew that — Nick knew that homicide happened that way, with the baby-faced bandit the one who’d shade the butcher!
Comic People, These Killers
by Walt Sheldon
It is not pretty, blood soaked all over a blanket. It is even not prettier, the body that has lost all the blood. I’m a phone company detective. If this is what happens to a lad who drops slugs in a pay phone, I picked the wrong profession...
Death, Yes, But Not Murder!
by William Rough
Death could have reached out cold fingers for the Donlon boy, death is all too commonplace to a riveter on those man-made skeletons that claw into the sky — death, yes, but not murder!
The Alibi That Was Too Air-Tight
by W.T. Ballard
Lucky? Well, maybe a flatfoot would have to be a little lucky to bust this air-tight alibi!
Cop Without a Conscience
by C.S. Montanye
Tim Daly was law and order, the Gondolfos were Crime with a capital C — The Gondolfos were top-flight tommy-gun artists, Tim Daly was a copper who packed dynamite in both his fists!
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