Forged in war, The Phantom Detective wages a one-man battle on crime! Solving impossible mysteries and delivering his own justice, he is the underworld’s masked nightmare!
When the Grim Reaper visits the State Fair, the Phantom Detective battles to halt the carnival of murder — and put justice on the program! Follow Richard Curtis Van Loan on one of the most exciting manhunts in his career!
Although other characters also had multiple writers, there may be reasons that so many contributed to The Phantom Detective. It is well known that multiple stories within the Phantom Detective series were originally intended for other characters but, for whatever reasons, were rewritten into Phantom Detective entries. The number of authors for this series relates not only to its longevity, but also to the fact that The Phantom Detective was more or less a straightforward lawman, albeit in a mask. Other Pulp heroes took on lost races, psychotic madmen with plots to litter the streets of New York with thousands of bodies, or mysterious monsters and insane mad scientists. The Phantom Detective, more often than not, steered clear of such outlandish threats and focused more specifically on street level crimes, be it actual crimes against citizens or massive underworld plots to rob the world blind. This more realistic take on a Pulp hero may have made the character easier for multiple authors to either write stories from beginning to end, or even to take tales they were already writing and simply rework them to fit as a Phantom Detective adventure. Even some of the wilder stories in the series seemed to benefit from the simplicity behind the basic concept. The accessibility of the series made sure that Phantom Detective fans had 170 stories to read from a fantastic variety of authors.
Death to the Laughing Clown was originally published in the October 1942 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Carnival of Murder
Chapter 2: Flight Of The Phantom
Chapter 3: Death to the Phantom
Chapter 4: Bootlegger of Death
Chapter 5: End Of The Trail
Chapter 6: Threat of Vengeance
Chapter 7: Experts on Diamonds
Chapter 8: Escape
Chapter 9: Death of a Prize Bull
Chapter 10: Double for Death
Chapter 11: Follow the Phantom
Chapter 12: Cat and Mouse Game
Chapter 13: Imitation Death
Chapter 14: Narrow Escape
Chapter 15: The Laughing Clown
Chapter 16: Dark Suspicion
Chapter 17: Genuine Fakes
Chapter 18: Brother to Murder
Chapter 19: Murder in Flames
Chapter 20: A Matter of Identity
Chapter 21: The Last Laugh
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