A steely-eyed private dick with an unshaven jaw of granite... a gat of dull gun-metal gray sags heavily under his armpit... he works the seamy underbelly of the city, coming up against squinty-eyed thugs, weasels who value human life less than the coins jingling in their pocket, and red-lipped bimbos with hot breath, wide eyes and long silky legs. The stories are hard, gritty and action-packed. They fairly scream, "pulp!" This was what Private Detective Stories offered beginning with its first issue in June of 1937. It came from the same publisher who brought you Blazing Western, Candid Detective, The Lone Ranger Magazine, Speed Adventure Stories and Speed Mystery. In all, 134 issues were published until the magazine closed in June of 1949. Private Detective Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Book-Length Novel
Complete In This Issue
Stranglers Walk Softly
by Geoffrey North
When Old Lady Hilliard hired McRae, it looked like a simple, routine job. But then mystery and violence and murder appeared on the scene — and the whole solution depended on a feather in a frog’s mouth!
Feature Novelette
Murder For Millions
by George A. McDonald
Always Killer “Cupid” Cain’s assignments put him on the spot where he must flay the lone wolf, no matter how resourceful he finds his country’s enemies.
Shorter Fiction
One Born Every Murder
by Rex Whitechurch
Ten minutes before he was scheduled to die in the chair Benny had been set free. Was it any wonder that his mind had been affected?
Ollie Tries Ice-Skating
by Harold de Polo
In many ways Sheriff Ollie Bascomb was like a big kid. His enemies capitalized on the fact. But sometimes wisdom lurks in a child’s mind.
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