Mystery and Crime Various: Popular Detective Sampler 8. V1. 21 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.

THE CHAIR IS NOT CHEATED—MEL WATT

Dr. Coffin, Radio Crime Specialist, is Suddenly Confronted with the Menace of Real Murder!

CLOWN OF DOOM—JOHN L. BENTON

Ed Rice Masquerades as a Corpse to Nab a Killer!

THE D. A. DIES—JOHN L. BENTON

The Killer Had a Slick Murder Scheme—but He Missed a Bet When He Failed to Take a Girl’s Keen Eyesight into Account!

ONE ON THE HOUSE DICK—JOE ARCHIBALD

Willie Klump Must Close the Hawkeye Agency, but He Makes a Comeback as a Hotel Sleuth that Opens Everybody’s Eyes!

DEATH PLAYS SANTA CLAUS—JOHNSTON McCULLEY

Lieutenant Mike O'Hara of homicide makes short work of a murder case—so that he can spend his Christmas at home!

MURDER IN THE WORST DEGREE—JOE ARCHIBALD

It wasn’t love that made Satchelfoot Kelly pin a rose on Willie Klump’s lapel—but he sure did his rival a favor!

BALDY SIMMONS AND THE T-BONE MURDER—JACK KOFOED

An overdone steak is the strange clue which leads Baldy to the killer who gunned down Ace-Deuce O’Reilly of Broadway!

MORGUE SHEET MUSIC—JOE ARCHIBALD

When Willie Klump plays Hawkshaw in a big jewel theft, it leads him to three corpses—and plenty of headaches!

MURDER MAKES A CLAIM—LEE E. WELLS

Tom Coville Does Some Hot Sleuthing When a Corpse is Found Holding a Soldering Iron!

BALDY AND THE DEAD SOUTHPAW—JACK KOFOED

When “Lefty” Waldron passes on, a crooked gambler and a two-timing girl call it suicide - so Simmons investigates!