Mystery and Crime Various: Popular Detective Sampler 2. V1. 14 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.

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!