Speed Detective began in 1934 under the title Spicy Detective, focusing on fast action stories, a bit provocative... perhaps a bit too provocative. Government and industry pressure finally caused Culture Publications to tone down their magazine beginning with the January 1943 issue. They even changed the company name to Trojan Publications. The contents weren't the only thing to change... the title was changed to Speed Detective. The magazine, in spite of its controversial reputation, attracted a surprising variety of top authors, including Robert Leslie Bellem, E. Hoffman Price, Hugh B. Cave, Norvell Page and Arthur Wallace. The February 1947 issue was the last of this long-running series. Speed Detective now returns with vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Feature Novelette
The Boomerang Switch
by Geoffrey North
Private Detective Mulqueen finds himself in that unfortunate position where everybody in town appears to be after his scalp, from the mayor down to the cheapest tinhorn gambler.
Short Novel, Starring Dan Turner,
Screenland’s Ace Detective
Death In The Groove
by Robert Leslie Bellem
It’s routine stuff for a private dick to be hired to locate a missing person, but it’s a little different when the detective figures his real job is to finger a man for a killing.
Short Stories
Who’ll Buy My Violence?
by Henry Norton
To get money to buy a chicken ranch, Mike had nothing to sell but what he had learned as a Ranger.
Frame-Up
by Lew Merrill
Though they had framed him once, the gang figured that Danny was dumb enough to fall for it all over again.
The Proven Way
by Ray Cummings
To the wounded boy, fearing he would be accused of murder, there seemed to be only one thing to do...
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