Three detective novels in one magazine... that's what Triple Detective promised readers. And it didn't fail, either. Each issue offered three complete novels, or perhaps novelets would be a more accurate description, showcasing gritty detective adventures, accompanied by several short stories. The series of magazines was quite popular with readers, lasting 35 issues and running from Spring 1947 to Fall of 1955, long after many pulp magazines had folded. The magazine was published by Best Publications (aka, Standard Magazines, aka Thrilling Publications) and it gave its readers a wide variety of detective fiction that few other magazines could match. Triple Detective returns in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
3 Novels
The Life Sentence
by H.C. Bailey
A slain octogenarian, a girl left to drown, and a woman paroled from jail are the keys to a grim and mysterious jigsaw of crime! Reggie Fortune is on hand just in time to enter a puzzling murder maze at a coastal village.
How Like A God
by Rex Stout
Step by step, all of the threads of Bill Sidney’s life lead inexorably to his bewildering rendezvous with strange doom — as he is drawn, helplessly, toward the murder of the one woman he can never get out of his blood!
Fear Death By Water
by Stuart Palmer
When Hildegarde Withers tries to clear Pat Montague of a murder charge, she forces the real killer to strike again — with consequences disastrous to herself, Inspector Piper, and some innocent tropical fish!
Department
The Readers’ Jury
Fact Feature
The Literary Criminal
by Simpson M. Ritter
True Story
A Poser For Poe
by Robert Wallace