Another bookful of Dan Turner Hollywood Detective stories from 1944 and 1945 issues of Speed Detective. Included in this book are: Coffin Frame, Gun From Gotham, Stock Shot, Stars Die at Night, Trump for the Ace, Morgue Case, Snatch Buster, Suicide Stunt, Dolly Shot, Funeral Fade-Out.

A FICTION HOUSE PRESS REPRINT: Another bookful of Dan Turner Hollywood Detective stories from 1942 issues of Dan Turner Hollywood Detective. Included in this book are: Beyond Justice, Death on Location, Gas-House Still, Murder Done Twice, Murderer's Error, Murder for Fame, Star Chamber, Broken Melody, The Color of Murder, Daughter of Murder, Killer's Union, and Malibu Mess. Illustrated.

Today many of the old pulp crime writers have achieved success to one degree or other. Sadly, like so many artists, they had to die before anyone took their work seriously. Featuring stories by Frank Johnson, John P. Rees, Carlota M. Hardy, Frederick C. Davis, David Goodis, C.S. Montanye, Norman A. Daniels, David Manners, Edward Ronns, William O'Sullivan, Jerome Severs Perry, Neil Moran, Robert Leslie Bellem, Mat Rand, Michael Bittner, Robert Turner, Joe Archibald, David James, Henry Herbert Knibbs, Benton Braden, and Cyril Plunkett.

This volume collects seven Bellem tales from pulp magazines such as "Spicy Mystery Stories," "Fifth Column Stories," and "The Ghost -- Super-Detective." Included are: "The Man Who Was Not," "Enough Glory," "The Cock Crows 'Murder'," "Knife in the Dark," "Kill That Headline," "War Plans Divided," and "Murder's Messenger." Introduction by Darrell Schweitzer.

The pulp, Super-Detective, with its adventure hero, Jim Anthony, started out as a competitor to Doc Savage. After 10 issues, the publisher turned Anthony into a hardboiled detective. This Flip Book, with a book on each side, explores both worlds. The front side is "Legion of Robots," a Doc Savage style novel from the issue of November 1940, written by Victor Rousseau. The flipside has "Murder's Migrants," a hardboiled story from March 1943, by the team of Robert Leslie Bellem and W.T. Ballard. Introductions that describe the behind-the-scenes story of Super-Detective are provided by, respectively, John McMahan and John Wooley.

Written and created by Robert Leslie Bellem, the hardnosed, feisty, Hollywood Detective, Dan Turner, is featured in eight stories and one comic presentation in this compilation. Read Temporary Corpse, Death's Bright Halo, Beyond Justice, Dark Star of Death, Blackmail from Beyond, Crimson Quest, Cat Act, and Latin Blood, as well as the comic, The Murdered Mummy. All stories are from Spicy Detective and Private Detective and are fully illustrated with the original artwork which accompanied their publication in the pulps.

The famous "Spicy" pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s are among the rarest and most sought-after publications by collectors. The "Spicy" magazines -- which included Spicy Mystery, Spicy Adventure, Spicy Detective, and others -- published a titilating mix of fantasy, horror, mystery, action-adventure, and suspense, punctuated by episodes of torture, sadism, sex, and other risque elements. Although tame by current standards, and sometimes of dubious literary merit, these publications presented tales which thrilled a sensation-hungry audience. Despite the themes and constraints of the market, writers who would later become famous -- including Hugh B. Cave, E. Hoffman Price, Robert Leslie Bellem, and many more -- were frequent contributors. The December 1939 issue of Spicy Adventure Stories includes contributions from Robert Leslie Bellem, Lew Merrill (Victor Rousseau), Hugh Speer, Ken Cooper, Clayton Maxwell, Clark Nelson, and Harley L. Court.