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.
The Super-Detective magazine was best known for the pulp hero Jim Anthony. Anthony was patterned after Street & Smith's popular Doc Savage. Anthony was one of the world’s wealthiest men, an amateur criminologist, a scientist, inventor, art collector, research engineer, and expert in aerodynamics. His skill at unraveling mysterious crimes made his name feared throughout the nation’s underworld.
When the magazine made its debut, Jim Anthony was not a part of it. The inaugural issue of Super-Detective Stories was March 1934. It featured standard detective stories and lasted 15 issues. After being off the newsstands for five years, the magazine returned with a slight name change. Known simply as Super-Detective, it now started off each issue with a novel containing the heroic exploits of Jim Anthony. There were twenty-five Jim Anthony novels, the last being October 1943. The magazine continued without Jim Anthony until October 1950, at which time the magazine folded. A total of 80 issues were printed, 15 in the early run, and 65 in the later series. Super-Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Book-Length Novel
Murder Was My Business
By Roger Torrey
Oil is always a dangerous material, likely to blaze on any occasion. Beneath this trouble in Florida there was enough of it to flare into a very frenzy of double-dealing and murder.
Trail To Death — Novelette
By Ray Cummings
Kidnapping for ransom is bad enough, but mixed up with robbery and murder, it’s unbelievably vicious.
Hard-Boiled Hawkshaw — Short Story
By James P. Olsen
Trouble-shooter Duane tackles simultaneously the hot-car racket and an oil-field swindle.
Typed — Short Story
By Lew Merrill
As an insurance investigator Adam Somervell had his hands full. The clues were too right to be right!
