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.
"Boom! An explosion of pain roared through me, blasted me all the way to my shoestrings. Klieg lights made pinwheel patterns in my glims, an atomic bomb took my grey cells apart, and I plunged into a deep black well of unconsciousness. For me it was the end of a chapter." Those inimitable words from Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, came from the pen of famed author Robert Leslie Bellem. His colorful slang was to influence hard-boiled dicks for decades. Turner was a shamus who made Tinsel-town his stomping grounds. Crime amongst the glitter. The character made his debut in 1934 as a short story in Spicy Detective magazine. It continued there, one of the most popular recurring characters. In January 1942, publisher Culture Publications spun it off into its own magazine. There were 59 issues of the series, until the final issue in October 1950. Hollywood Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Dramatic Novelettes Starring Dan Turner,
Hollywood’s Super-Sleuth
Encore For Death
by Robert Leslie Bellem
In this case of the rodent-like cameraman, the butterfly cinema queen and assorted odd characters, it seemed to Dan Turner that a spool of reel life might tell him a great deal of unpleasantly dangerous stuff about real life — and about real death that was miscast!
You’re So Dead!
by Robert Leslie Bellem
Hollywood’s ace hawkshaw, Mr. Turner himself, took a nearly fatal step when he walked in on the murder of Supremacy’s hot-shot star — but he still wanted to find the connection between killery and jewelry!
Special Novelettes and Short Stories
Footprint Of Destiny
by Laurence Donovan
This movietown shamus named Larch didn’t always like the way some of the regular lawmen worked on a homicide case — and this one, happening almost in front of their eyes, had special grim interest for him.
Gem In The Gutter
by Jerome Severs Perry
McDade was a homicide-squad detective with bitterness in his private past — and it was going to take more than unusual clues to give him the answer on the strange actions of Lenihan, the guttersnipe pickpocket!
A Corpse Can’t Walk!
by Joe McCoy
Private detective Deming had about decided to withdraw from this flickertown murder setup — and then some startling angles thrust themselves into the case.
Look For The Kill
by Howard Prince
Maybe they were seeking ruthlessly to snare a legendary buried treasure — and if so, it seemed to Investigator Osborne that the sinister undercurrents of lawlessness boiling beneath the surface of the town must lead swiftly to deadly things — and he was right!
Maids Of Murder
by Ivan Dorrance
Private-eye Monahan decided this macabre member might be fact disguised as fancy.
Crime Features
The Poisoned Tavern
by Howard McIntosh
Pinkerton’s Ghost
by Will Nichols
