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:
Two Feature Novels
Complete In This Issue
Riddle Of The Runaway Rat
by Geoffrey North
Two-legged rats are something that Private-Eye Wilding understands. The four-legged type is a breed that requires independent study.
Affair On Buzzard’s Island
by Day Keene
There were plenty who hated my Uncle Mort enough to cut his throat. Me, I’d hated him too — but I had an ironclad alibi, and I didn’t need all his dirty money anyway.
Shorter Fiction
The Right To Kill
by Henry Norton
It had been funny, after a drinking bout, to ask: “What did I do?” But now, with murder —
Postscript To A Honeymoon
by E. Starr
Mike was wondering what sinister reason from the past was making his wife’s father hide out.
Murder ? Susan
by Donald C. Cameron
Invalided home from the Pacific, Rex Martin found murderous skullduggery awaiting him.
Black Record
by David Carver
Justice crept strangely from the mordant darkness.
Fact Article
Chemistry Aids Homicide Cops
