Crack Detective Stories was a magazine that underwent multiple name changes... eight of them! During the middle of its run, it was known as Crack Detective Stories, but it didn't start out that way. Detective Yarns, as it was first known, made its debut with the June 1938 issue, coming from Columbia Publications. It switched to a character pulp, featuring The Black Hood as of September 1941, and its name changed to Black Hood Detective. Then it became Hooded Detective for two issues until Crack Detective was born in May of 1942. After ten issues a single word was added to the name, and it became Crack Detective Stories. With the November 1949 issue the title was changed to Famous Detective, and then after three issues it became Famous Detective Stories. The final incarnation began in December 1956 with the name Crack Detective and Mystery Stories. This title lasted for four issues. The final issue was July 1957, outlasting most of the other pulp magazines on the market. There were 97 issues published in all. Crack Detective Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Bizarre Mystery Novel
The Lady Smiles At Fate
by Russell Gray
One by one the survivors of that ghastly week in an open boat fell victims to the sinister killer. And the only other person who knew the reason for these murders was a girl who’d lost her memory!
Two Powerful Novelets
Death Reaps The Harvest
by G.T. Fleming-Roberts
Rolf Whitesides sowed the seeds of murder when he made out his will, for Swain saw the technical flaw in it, but was determined not to tell. And only blood could wipe out that error!
Blood On My Hands
by T.W. Ford
It was very simple. All Victor Bane had to do to clear himself when Maria Rystal was slain, was to sit tight — and let them pin the rap on his fiancée, Claire!
Crack Short Stories
Simple Arithmetic
by Cliff Campbell
When Chance provides you with a perfect alibi, beware!
No Witnesses
by John J. Wallace
The only clue was a voice in the night...
Clue In Crimson
by Ray Cummings
If Dr. Feather could make a tiny splotch of blood talk, then the solution to the mysterious attack upon Clark Douglas would be simple!
