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.
NO BLOOD—JOHN L. BENTON
There Is Slaughter Even When There Is No Blood
LINCOLN LETTER—C. K. M. SCANLON
Si Pendleton’s One Treasure Was the Valuable Lincoln Letter
THE BUILD-UP—J. S. ENDICOTT
Detective Jim Durst Didn’t Let the Grass Grow Under His Feet When He Was Ordered Out on the Mavis Pearce Snatch!
HALF A GRAND—C. K. M. SCANLON
Hands of Greed Reach For the Tainted Half A Grand
DEATH RAY—PAUL ERNST
Follow Bill Oliver as He Tracks Down a Cowardly Killer and Solves a “Clueless ” Murder!
MURDER WITNESS—JOE ARCHIBALD
Sleuth Murphy Knows the Answer when Dead Eyes Accuse a Killer!
A SHOT IN THE DARK—RAY CUMMINGS
An Ingenious Detective Finds the Fatal Chord in a Fugue of Death!
SNATCH CAR—DONALD BAYNE HOBART
John Saxon Takes the Wheel in a Madcap Race With a Mob of Snatcheteers!
THE SHOCK—C. K. M. SCANLON
Desperation – to the Point of Murder! Then – The Shock
DANCE, PUNK, DANCE—LLOYD LLEWELL
It Takes an Old-Timer Like Pegleg to Drive Home a Valuable Lesson to a Vicious Varmint!