Mystery and Crime Various: Thrilling Detective Sampler 3. V1.18 Mar 2012

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Thrilling Detective was the first of Ned Pines's long line of pulp magazines, starting in 1931 and running for an amazing 213 issues before folding in Summer 1953. A British reprint edition ran for at least 88 issues between 1939 and 1954. There was also a Canadian reprint edition during the same period.

Lined With Death—John L. Benton

Detective Nelson runs into a slick scheme for loot and mixes it with a crew of greed-maddened killers!

Memphis Blues—Frank Johnson

A corpse, a hand grenade and a blood-stained rose!

Shoulder Straps—C. S. Montanye

McClain unleashed a thunderous right hook and sent the gun whirling from Bristol’s fingers

Death On The Meter—Edward Ronns

Detective Dolliver of Homicide Runs a Chase With Doom on the Trail of a Killer—and Learns That the Female of the Gun Racket Species Can Be More Deadly Than the Male!

One Trial Less—Ted Coughlan

Old Criminal Judge Wright was forgetful—but he still remembered how to put down a killer!

Salmon For Satan—Hal K. Wells

By using a sinister fiery-eyed feline to solve a mystery, Patrolman Clancy proves black cats are unlucky—for killers!

A Shroud For Mr. Hyde—Benton Braden

The goober-eating gumshoe adds a dash of gunpowder to a boiling crime stew before serving plotters up to the law!

Death Scoops A Columnist—Joe Archibald

Police Detective Pat Kenna barges into a baffling kidnapping case that puts wheels within wheels of mystery in motion!