Mystery Book Magazine was a bid to cash in on the post-war mystery boom. Each issue featured a full-length mystery novel written by a top-notch mystery writer. It made its debut in 1945, but due to poor sales, it changed from monthly to bi-monthly and in 1947 to quarterly. In 1950, in an effort to boost sales, it changed its name to Giant Detective. Two issues later, it ceased publication. During its 34-issue, 6-year run, it presented some top rated mysteries for its pulp readers, from the best writers in the field, including four original Michael Shayne mysteries by Brett Halliday. Mystery Book Magazine returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
A Peter Duluth Novel
Run To Death
by Patrick Quentin
She was beautiful but doomed — and her fate plunged the debonair Broadway sleuth down a dark, twisting path of murder and violence in Yucatan! It’s a mad marathon of terror, danger and mystery!
A Complete Novelet
Dark Exit
by Helen Reilly
In a weird atmosphere of macabre gloom, the tangled destinies of Elizabeth Chandler and her friends are suddenly torn asunder by a hidden murderer who rises menacingly from the shadow of the past!
Short Stories
The Laughing Butcher
by Fredric Brown
The Corbyville Horror was a black magician — but his incantations proved of no avail when he found himself hoist by his own voodoo!
Hand In Hand With Murder
by Norman A. Daniels
Nora Bradford plans a crime that succeeds in fooling the police, the insurance company, and two confidence men — but not herself.
The Corpse In The Cabana
by Robert C. Dennis
Kenny Selton takes a job as a barman in order to escape scandal, but it crops right up again when he has the key to a grim mystery...
Fourth Offense For Eddie
by Robert Wallace
It was one pretty roll of bills that was toted by the victim whom Gardiner had selected, and it happened to be too pretty to be true.
Features
Good Crimes Are Coming
by The Editor
Elizabeth Took A Walk
by Leo Marr
A Bargain In Crime
by Sam Sleuth
