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 Full-Length Novel
Puzzle For Fiends
by Patrick Quentin
Peter Duluth picks up a hitch-hiker and recovers consciousness in a plaster cast amid as beguiling a family of killers as ever set out to give their proposed victim — Peter — a high, wide and handsome time before putting his corpse to their profit.
A Short Story
The Perfectionist
by Margaret St. Clair
Sweet as Whistler’s Mother, Aunt Muriel dreams only of painting realistic pictures — but her urge for artistic verisimilitude leads to an appalling local crime wave!
A True Story
The Ghost Went West
by Leo Marr
Desire comes from under the elms in this strange tale of a man who dies twice.
Death Makes A Halliday
by The Editor
I’m Asking You
by Will Cuppy
