Thrills, mystery and action! Popular Detective magazine really lived up to its name. It was one of the longest running detective pulps and contained some of the best of detective fiction around. November 1934 saw the inaugural issue, coming from Better Publications, the publisher of all those Thrilling pulps... Thrilling Detective, Thrilling Mystery, Thrilling Western, Thrilling Adventures, Thrilling Wonder Stories and many others without the word "Thrilling" in the title, as well. The Black Bat, Captain Future, The Green Ghost, the Phantom Detective... all these were from Better Publications. Popular Detective was offered monthly until 1938, then bi-monthly. And within those 128 pages, could be found authors like C.K.M. Scanlon, Frederick C. Painton, L. Ron Hubbard, Johnston McCulley, Leslie Charteris, and many others of top-notch talent. The magazine finally folder in the fall of 1953, after an amazing 133 issues of quality detective fiction. Popular Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Featured Novel
The Loveless Die First
by Dale Bogard
Was it just because those young dolls liked Bogard’s looks that they were ready to give their all to him?
Two Novelets
Cry Murder!
by Donn Mullally
Quest For A Corpse
by Sam Merwin, Jr.
Seven Short Stories
Divining Rod Murder Case — True
by Harold Helfer
The Naked Truth
by Morris Cooper
Kiss The Dead Girl
by Bruno Fischer
Danger... Maniac
by David Alexander
If The Shoe Doesn’t Fit
by Rufus Bakalor
Escape Of Doom
by R. Van Taylor
Who’s In The Dark?
by William Degenhard
Special Feature
The Sex Frame-up
by Frank Talker
Other Features
End Of The Road — Verse
by Clarence E. Flynn
Bureau Of Missing Persons
A Department
Detective Movie News
by Ann Kennedy
Simple Tricks Foil Crooks
by Carter Critz
Home Was Never Like This
by M.E. David
Loony Laws
by Cellblock Sam
