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.
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:
A Kip Morgan Novelet
Corpse on the Carpet
by Louis L’Amour
She was a honey of a gal, and her jewels had plenty of sparkle, but when Morgan followed her out of that bar, grim Death tagged along!
Walk Softly, Death — Complete Novelet
by Arthur Leo Zagat
A jail cell held the answer to the murder of Vic’s policeman father, and the price of learning it would be — Vic’s own life!
Murder By Mirrors — Complete Novelet
by O.B. Myers
Brett was a realtor, but he had no interest in plots that were six feet under — even if he got a pretty brunette for company!
Death From A Family Tree — Short Story
by Sam Merwin, Jr.
Wilfred I. Hull probably selected the wrong set of ancestors
Jail And The Harvards — Short Story
by Joe Archibald
Gumshoe Willie Klump doesn’t know what an expediter might be
Alias Mrs. Ivor — Short Story
by Barry Perowne
The only evidence against Gina Macaire is an artist’s sketch
Dig It Deep — Short Story
by David X. Manners
Detective Carl Carter lets a hunch lead him to an evil killer
And Let That Be A Lesson! — Short Story
by Robert Sidney Bowen
Chet Lacey saves an old man from sorrow, a lady from folly
Official Business — Department
by The Editor
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