"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:
Two Hard-Hitting Novelettes
Starring Dan Turner, Hollywood’s Top Private Sleuth
Murder Muscles In
by Robert Leslie Bellem
Dan Turner heaved a guy over his head in defense of a slick chick, but he didn’t expect to face a murder rap.
Make With The Mayhem
by Robert Leslie Bellem
The hatchet-thrower loved his wife, so it was up to Dan Turner to find out why he cleaved her with one of his axes.
Other Swift-Paced Short Detective Stories and Novelettes
Murder Steals The Show
by John Kane
A private dick in a theatre runs into a mess of murder.
Murder Gets Top Billing
by Richard Cortez
Grim death was waiting high aloft for pretty Marie Celeste.
Dancing Death
by M.P. Rea
All in the night club loved the dancer, but one killed her.
Cue For A Corpse
by Gregory Weber
A beautiful blonde with her throat slit — and not a clue!
Death Rings Down The Curtain
by Paul Hanna
The sheriff turns actor and backstage he gets his quarry.
Spotlite Murder
by T.E. Soames
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