"Boom! An explosion of pain roared through me, blasted me all the way to my shoestrings. Klieg lights made pinwheel patterns in my glims, an atomic bomb took my grey cells apart, and I plunged into a deep black well of unconsciousness. For me it was the end of a chapter." Those inimitable words from Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, came from the pen of famed author Robert Leslie Bellem. His colorful slang was to influence hard-boiled dicks for decades. Turner was a shamus who made Tinsel-town his stomping grounds. Crime amongst the glitter. The character made his debut in 1934 as a short story in Spicy Detective magazine. It continued there, one of the most popular recurring characters. In January 1942, publisher Culture Publications spun it off into its own magazine. There were 59 issues of the series, until the final issue in October 1950. Hollywood Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Book-Length Novel — Complete in This Issue
Numbered Death
by Roger Torrey
My hotel wouldn’t allow visitors in the guest rooms. But when I got back, I found a visitor in my bed! A girl — and very, very dead!
Shorter Fiction
Case Closed
by William Decatur
When Jim came out of prison he had only one worry. How would his son feel toward a father convicted of murder?
Murder’s Mouthpiece
by Robert Leslie Bellem
To Dan Turner, Ace Wardman was a seventeen cylinder heel. And if he was looking for trouble, he wouldn’t have to look far.
One Man’s Life
by Walton Grey
He hadn’t intended to murder the girl, but now that she was dead, he had brains enough to know that his job was just begun.
Special Feature
The Racketeering Farmer
by Zeta Rothschild
They thought him an average simple country boy, and all the time, he was a callous, brutal, murdering monster!
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