Mystery and Crime Various: Popular Detective Sampler 3. V1. 15 Jan 2012

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Popular Detective
Popular Detective is one of the basic detective pulps, both for its longevity (133 issues in 19 years) and for a consistent high quality of material from most of the top detective authors of the period.
There were three series of a Canadian reprint edition, one in the 1930s, one in the early 1940s, and one in the late 1940s/early 1950s, as well as a British reprint edition in the 1950s.

ROUGH DIAMONDS—FRANK GRUBER

A Crook’s Desperate Shakedown Scheme Goes to the Mat With an Unexpected Showdown!

BOXED DEATH—C. K. M. Scanlon

A Gruesome Killing – and its Startling Aftermath!

WHAT'S A HUNDRED DOLLARS—ROBERT WALLACE

Fear Rides at Marty Connell’s Elbow as His fever-Ridden Brain Envisages a Bloody Fate!

DEATH HANGS HIGH—J. S. ENDICOTT

Weird, Baffling Doom Stalks an Abandoned Mine!

PAGE THE MURDERER—C. K. M. SCANLON

Years Pass and the Ways of Men part – But the Hideous Poison of Vengeance Remains Alive!

A SWITCH IN TIME—C. K. M. SCANLON

The Kite That Raised the Payoff on Tom Hanson’s Thousand Dollar Check Comes Back to Earth!

MURDER IN THE FOG—RAY CUMMINGS

Dr. Feather Tries to Prove You Can “Set a Thief to Catch a Thief”

YOU'VE GOT TO BE TOUGH—OSCAR SCHISGALL

A Hard-Boiled Headquarters Detective Lies in Wait for a Fugitive!

BIRD CAGEY—JOE ARCHIBALD

A Fowl in the Hand May Be Worth Two in the Hedge, But Willie Klump Goes After Two Jailbirds with One Grindstone!

THE DEAD MAN LAUGHS—RAY CUMMINGS

The Dead Man Laughs—as a Scientific Sleuth Tackles the Riddle of A Mysterious Fire!