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.
MURDER MUSIC—CHARLES STODDARD
Detective Ward Heath Uses Ten Fingers to Play a Piano But Only One to Pull a Trigger When Murderers Tune Up!
ONE FOR THE BOOK—DONALD BAYNE HOBART
When Down-and-Outers Grow Enthusiastic About Literature, Detective Boone Exercises His Own Think-Tank to Bag a Counterfeit Gang!
MURDER WRAP—JOE ARCHIBALD
Willie Klump Was Proud of His New Suit—But He Had to Give the Seat of His Pants to a Dog to Filch a Murder Case from the Police!
THE KNIFE THROWER—JOE ARCHIBALD
Satchelfoot Kelly said it was a perfect crime and couldn’t be solved—but for a thousand bucks Willie Klump thought different!
TOO MANY ANGLES—CALVIN L. BOSWELL
Branded as the chief suspect in a bowling alley murder, Jim Trent matches wits with a crafty killer!
DEADLINE FDANIELSOR MURDER—NORMAN A.
Clear, Keen Deduction, and Not Romany Second Sight, Leads Orlando, Gypsy Detective, to the Lair of a Scheming Political Murder Band!
FRAGILE EVIDENCE—LEE FREDRICKS
Pierre Barodin proves he’s a sleuth as well as a noted authority when he gives his sword-cane a work-out that punctures a crime!
BLACKMAIL CLINIC—WALT BRUCE
A Nazi “truth serum” proves a boomerang when Dr. Zeng Tse-Lin invades the precincts of treachery in a daring campaign to clean up a sinister nest of murder and espionage!
THE BIRD MASTER—ARTHUR J. BURKS
Twitterings and squawks that presage looting and death hand a cuckoo of a murder case to astounded Police Detective Mickie O’Day!
WILLIAM KLUMP, NURSEMAID—JOE ARCHIBALD
The Hawkeye Hawkshaw plays “wooden duck” for a killer and gets a clue from Mother Goose!