One of the many British magazines in the 1940s published as a series of booklets with different titles to avoid paper restrictions. Three issues are known, but others may exist.

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Detective Classics was an early detective pulp from Fiction House that actually started life as a war pulp titled Soldier Stories. After only four issues under that name it switched to a detective pulp, under the name Detective Classics, as which it continued for another 22 monthly issues. Each issue typically featured a lead novel followed by a small number of columns and short stories.

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True crime. Very elusive magazine; issues not seen and total run uncertain. Richard Bleiler has confirmed it is non-fiction.

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Detective Dime Novels was launched in the wake of the suddent revival of interest in single-character pulp magazines in 1940, and featured Dr. Thaddeus Harker. With the second issue it was renamed to Red Star Detective and folded a mere three issues later.

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A short-lived monthly magazine of mainly Australian stories.

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Publishers:   Caravan Books Inc., 1 West 47th Street, New York 36
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines

"Published and edited by Richard Crompton who claimed that it was the only paper in existence which featured a different detective in a story each week. Similar size and colour to the Detective Weekly 1933." (W.O.G. Lofts)

Reprints of non-Nick Carter stories from early Magnet Libraries.

Replaced by Nugget Weekly.

A short-lived pulp magazine which printed a single novel in each issue, the first of which, at least, was a reprint.

True crime.

Fortnightly British pulp magazine which ran between 1922 & 1925. Each issue -- superbly illustrated by a variety of artists, most of them Amalgamated Press regulars -- is a mixture of fiction and non-fiction; the early issues contained the serialisation of "Flat 2" by Edgar Wallace and offered a ú500 prize to the reader who could come up with the best solution to the mystery; Wallace's own solution was published a few months after the third episode appeared.

George Dilnot, the editor, was a well-known crime journalist of the time, editing a number of volumes of books about famous trials; he was also a former editor of Answers, and wrote "The Romance of the Amalgamated Press"; clearly a favoured son of the company. Dilnot used his contacts at Scotland Yard and seems to have hired every ex-Chief Det.-Insp. that ever worked there to write articles. In the fiction department, he often relied on American reprints, but there's some very interesting British authors tucked away in these old pages too.

Another thin Australian digest printing original stories mainly by Australian authors, with a few British authors (probably with retitled reprint stories).