Mystery and Crime Various: Popular Detective Sampler 10. V1. 23 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.
TABLE of CONTENTS

WHEN A BODY MEETS A BODY—JOE ARCHIBALD

STALLING ALL CARS!—JOE ARCHIBALD

When Willie Klump takes Gertie Mudgett for a spin in his Gnash-8 car, two mobsters go along - just for the ride!

42 KEYS TO MURDER—EDWARD CHURCHILL

Newspaper correspondent Nick Burney and his wife Sue become a pair of high-powered sleuths when they take the trail after the killing of Homer Hansel, the snooping society editor!

DON'T FOOL WITH MURDER—ROBERT SIDNEY BOWEN

“Make your act perfect tonight, because it may be your last,” was the grim warning sent to the Great Cordova, handcuff king!

HAND OF GUILT—SAM BAYNE

Nancy hurried into the hotel suite to give that millionaire customer a manicure, but what he needed more was—a coffin!

MURDER'S HANDYMAN—WOODROW WILSON SMITH

When three of Paul Ogden’s relatives die—and he collects on their policies—Johnny Curtin decides to investigate!

NEW YEAR'S PARDON—JOHNSTON McCULLEY

When Joe Leake wins a pardon from the Big House, he plans to get a new tenant for his cell—but quick!

PHOTO FINISH FOR A DAME—JOE ARCHIBALD

Willie Klump, the daffy snoop, gets himself badly tangled in a contagious blackmail case!

THREE FINGERS OF DEATH—ROGER FULLER

A Moody Hackett Novelet

KLUMP A LA CARTE—JOE ARCHIBALD

Willie becomes a moocher at Finnerty’s Homelike Cafe just so he can help wash the dishes—and uncovers a sink of iniquity!