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    Detective Adventures   (about)
    Mike Cook, in Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, says a single issue of this pulp magazine was published, but no copy has ever been located.

    • Publishers:
      • Lorelei Publishing; Chicago: Detective Adventures.

    Detective and Murder Mysteries (1939)   (about)
    Of the same name as an earlier magazine published by Associated Authors, Inc., this pulp magazine first appeared in March 1939 featuring one of the early marijuana stories, and is noted for its garish and weird covers often featuring torture and mayhem.

    • Publishers:
      • Blue Ribbon Magazines, Inc.; 1 Appleton Street, Holyoke, MA: Detective and Murder Mysteries, Mar 1939 – Nov 1939.
      • Columbia Publications, Inc.; 1 Appleton Street, Holyoke, MA: Detective and Murder Mysteries, Feb 1941.

    Detective Book Magazine   (about)
    This magazine began in 1930, but did not run continuously, being suspended from 1931 to 1937. It featured reprints of hardcover mystery novels, some or all of which were abridged.

    • Publishers:
      • Fiction House, Inc.; New York: Detective Book Magazine, Apr 1930 – Dec 1951.
      • Fiction House, Inc.; Stamford, CT: Detective Book Magazine, Dec 1952.

    • Editors:
      • J. W. Kelly - Editor: Detective Book Magazine, Apr 1930 – Sep 1931.
      • Malcolm Reiss - Editor: Detective Book Magazine, Fall 1937 – Fall 1940.
      • Wallace T. Foote - Editor: Detective Book Magazine, Winter 1940 – Summer 1942.
      • Larabie Cunningham - Editor: Detective Book Magazine, Fall 1942 – Winter 1942.
      • Malcolm Reiss - Editor: Detective Book Magazine, Spring 1943 – Spring 1950.
      • Jack O’Sullivan - Editor: Detective Book Magazine, Winter 1951 – Winter 1952.

    Detective Casebook
    One of the many British magazines in the 1940s published as a series of booklets with different titles to avoid paper restrictions

    • Publishers:
      • Brown Watson: Detective Casebook.

    Detective Casebook [(#2, March) 1948] (Brown Watson, 1/-, 32pp, quarto) []
    This issue is entitled Bedside Detective Casebook.

    Detective Classics:   (about)
    This magazine started life as a war pulp, but, 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.

    Soldier Stories

    • Publishers:
      • Fiction House, Inc.; 271 Madison Avenue, New York, NY: Soldier Stories.

    Detective Classics
    Title changed from Soldier Stories.

    • Publishers:
      • Fiction House, Inc.; 271 Madison Avenue, New York, NY: Detective Classics, Nov 1929 – Jun 1930.
      • Fiction House, Inc.; 220 East 42nd Street, New York, NY: Detective Classics, Jul 1930 – Sep 1931.

    Detective Crime Stories
    Peter Haining, in American Pulp Magazines, lists this as a magazine but it is actually an anonymous anthology featuring a story of that title by Lee Dexter.

    Detective Dime Novels:   (about)
    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.

    Detective Dime Novels

    • Publishers:
      • The Frank A. Munsey Company; 280 Broadway, New York, NY: Detective Dime Novels.

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