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Popular Detective [v44 #2, March 1953] ed. Everett H. Ortner (Better Publications, Inc., 25¢, 114pp, pulp) Details supplied by Monte Herridge. 6 · The Forty Elephants · Norman Renard · ms 9 · Bureau of Missing Persons · Anon. · cl 10 · The Unsinkable Blonde [Steve Koski] · Stewart Sterling · na 37 · Death in the Moonlight [Melville Fairr] · Craig Rice · ss 41 · The Reason · Sam L. Mann · pm 45 · By Way of Example · Philip Ketchum · ss; illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler 53 · The High Cost of Killing · Dorothy Dunn · ss 61 · Detective Movie News · Ann Kennedy · mr 63 · Booby-Trap Currency · Lew York · ms 64 · Was She Murdered? · S. N. Wernick · ss 74 · Inside Stuff · Harold Helfer · cl 76 · Small Fry · Frank Richardson Pierce · ss 82 · Love Me—Love My Corpse! · Philip Weck · nv

Popular Detective [v44 #3, May 1953] ed. Everett H. Ortner (Better Publications, Inc., 25¢, 114pp, pulp) Details supplied by Monte Herridge. 6 · Inside Stuff · D. V. Guilder · cl 9 · Bureau of Missing Persons · Anon. · cl 10 · The Darkened Room · Bruce Elliott · na 27 · Set a Thief— · Robert Carlton · ss 34 · Such a Pretty Corpse · Francis Hamilton · ss 41 · Assorted Mayhem · Harold Helfer · ms 42 · The Cop War · Philip Weck · nv 62 · Long Arm of the Law · Jack Benton · ms 63 · Success Story · Frank D. Millman · ss 67 · A Touch of Marion · L. F. Guttridge · ss 74 · The Trouble Twins [Tim Rigby] · Bill Carroll · ss 79 · [cartoon] · Reamer Keller · ct 81 · Detective Movie News · Ann Kennedy · mr 84 · The Kiss-and-Kill Murders [Don Marko] · Stewart Sterling · nv 112 · The Black Cross · Will Cole · ms

Popular Detective [v45 #1, Fall 1953] ed. Morris Ogden Jones (Better Publications, Inc., 25¢, 114pp, pulp) Details supplied by Monte Herridge. 6 · Bureau of Missing Persons · Anon. · cl 9 · Inside Stuff: The Poor Devil’s Advocate · Pat Jones · cl; story of Legal Aid lawyer Ben Schmier. 10 · The Corpse in 1214 [Gil Vine] · Stewart Sterling · na 23 · Up to the Minute · William Carter · ar 29 · Smoked Out · Lew York · ar 37 · Hundred Percenter · Edward Polosky · ss 45 · Island of Fear · Ben Smith · ss; illustrated by Orban 52 · Deadlier Than the Male · Philip Weck · ss 62 · The Mystery Quiz · Anon. · qz 63 · Double Trouble [Tim Rigby] · William E. Carroll · ss 68 · Early to Kill · Stan Widney · nv 79 · Detective Movie News · Ann Kennedy · mr 82 · Murder for Madame [Milo March] · M. E. Chaber · nv 91 · Miscellaneous Mayhem · Harold Helfer · ms 102 · Hoodlum · John L. Benton · ss

Popular Detective (Australia)    (about) Another thin Australian digest, this one with a mixture of original stories and reprints from American pulps. Publishers: Action Comics Pty. Ltd.; 14 Bond Street, Sydney: Popular Detective (Australia)

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #1, 1954] (66pp, digest) Incomplete Data - Issue not found. Need Contents [unknown story] · William C. Bailey · ss

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #2, 1954] (digest) Details taken from Table of Contents. 3 · Editorial · [The Editor] · ed (r) 4 · Cry Murder [Doan & Carstairs] · Anon. · na Flynn’s Detective Fiction Jul 1944, as by Norbert Davis 34 · House by the River · Carroll John Daly · nv Famous Detective Stories Feb 1953 57 · The Slay’s the Thing · Mal Kent · ss Famous Detective Stories Nov 1951

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #3, 1954] (digest) Details taken from Table of Contents. Editorial · [The Editor] · ed (r) Don’t Monkey with Murder! · Anon. · na Smashing Detective Stories Jun 1953, as by Hunt Collins Half-Pint Galahad [Oliver Pettibone] · Anon. · na Flynn’s Detective Fiction May 1944, as by Donald G. Cormack Design for Dying · Leigh Brackett · na Flynn’s Detective Fiction Jun 1944

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #4, 1954] (1/-, 66pp, digest) Die Tomorrow, Please · Anon. · nv Smashing Detective Stories Dec 1953, as by Buck Gilmore Strictly on the Ball · Seven Anderton · nv Smashing Detective Stories Mar 1952 The Black Fog Deaths [Archie McCann] · David MacGregor · ss Famous Detective Stories Nov 1952 Miss Pender Smells a Rat [Edna Pender; Steve Ware] · Seven Anderton · ss Famous Detective Stories Nov 1951

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #5, 1954] (digest) Details taken from Table of Contents. Editorial · [The Editor] · ed Watch for a Murder · Anon. · ss His for the Killing · Kevin M. Slattery · ss Dirge in A Flat · Anon. · ss Famous Detective Stories Nov 1951, as by James MacCreigh

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #6, 1954] (digest) Details taken from Table of Contents. Editorial · [The Editor] · ed Shadow on My Doorway · Kevin M. Slattery · ss The Case That Jack Built · G. C. Bleeck · ss

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #7, 1954] (Action Comics, digest) Vote One for Murder · Kevin M. Slattery · nv

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #8, 1954] (1/-, 66pp, digest) They Run by Night · Kevin M. Slattery · ss The Runaway Bridegrooms · Kevin M. Slattery · ss

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #9, 1954 (variant 1)] (1/-, 66pp, digest) Details supplied by Tom Lesser. Different issues numbered #9 contain different stories. 4 · A Matter of State · William C. Bailey · nv Smashing Detective Stories Sep 1953 32 · Chartered for Death · Anon. · na Flynn’s Detective Fiction May 1944, as by Edward S. Williams 48 · Wavelength, Death! · Anon. · nv Famous Detective Stories Nov 1951, as by Daniel R. Gilgannon

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #9, 1954 (variant 2)] (1/-, 66pp, digest) Different issues numbered #9 contain different stories. Misleading Lady · Kevin M. Slattery · ss Framed for Murder · Peter Williams · ss

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #10, 1954] (1/-, 66pp, digest) Details supplied by Tom Lesser. 4 · The Long Corner · Anon. · nv 37 · Ring of Violence · Lee Masters · nv

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #11, 1954 (variant 1)] (1/-, 66pp, digest) Different issues numbered #11 contain different stories. Dial Central...? · Anon. · ss A Guy Alone · Kevin M. Slattery · ss

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #11, 1954 (variant 2)] (1/-, 66pp, digest) Different issues numbered #11 contain different stories. Through Murder’s Eyes · Dwight V. Swain · nv Mammoth Detective Sep 1942 Lower My Coffin · Don De Boe · na Famous Detective Stories Aug 1954 Second-Choice Sucker · E. E. Clement · ss Famous Detective Stories Aug 1954

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #12, 1954] (Action Comics Pty. Ltd., 1/-, 66pp, digest) Details supplied by Geoff Harrison. 1 · It’s Only Money · Kevin Slattery · nv 37 · Seven Steps to Winter · Kevin Slattery · nv

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #13, 1954] (digest) Issue not found. Need Contents

Popular Detective (Australia) [v1 #14, 1954] (digest, cover by Keith Chatto) Dangerous Dame · G. C. Bleeck · ss Be Happy When I’m Dead · Kevin M. Slattery · ss

Popular Detective (Canada)    (about) Canadian reprint edition of Popular Detective Publishers: The American News Company, Ltd.; Toronto, Ontario: Popular Detective (Canada)

Popular Detective (Canada) [April 1935] (15¢, 146pp, pulp) Incomplete Data - Issue not found - probably identical contents to the US issue of the same date. Need Contents The Red Ghost Deaths · Paul Ernst · nv Popular Detective Apr 1935 The Saint and Mr. Teal [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · na The Thriller Jun 16 1934, as “The Man Who Knew” Streamline Train Murders [Dirck Shann] · Frederick C. Painton · nv Popular Detective Apr 1935 Craig Kennedy’s Strangest Case [Craig Kennedy] · Arthur B. Reeve (with A. T. Locke) · nv Popular Detective Apr 1935 Front Page Murder · Oscar Schisgall · nv Popular Detective Apr 1935

Popular Detective (Canada) [v3 #2, June 1935] (15¢, 146pp, pulp) Identical contents to the US issue of the same date. Details supplied by Rob Preston. 10 · Sentenced from the Grave · George A. McDonald · nv Popular Detective Jun 1935 35 · Whitewashed · Fletcher Daniel Slater · vi Popular Detective Jun 1935 36 · Flaming Vengeance · E. Hoffmann Price · nv Popular Detective Jun 1935 68 · The Sinister Dr. Wong · Robert Wallace · nv Popular Detective Jun 1935 93 · The Baffle Picture · Wit-Sharpener · pz Popular Detective Jun 1935 94 · The Navy Murder Case [Craig Kennedy] · Arthur B. Reeve (with A. T. Locke) · nv Popular Detective Jun 1935 116 · Ten Hours to Death · Oscar Schisgall · nv Popular Detective Jun 1935 142 · Official Business · The Chief · ed Popular Detective Jun 1935

Popular Detective (Canada) [v3 #3, July 1935] (pulp) Identical contents to the US issue of the same date. Details supplied by Rob Preston. 12 · Too Tough to Die [Red Lacey] · George Bruce · nv Popular Detective Jul 1935 40 · Marked for Murder · Hugh B. Cave · nv Popular Detective Jul 1935 66 · The Lair of the Claw · Laurence W. Harrell · nv Popular Detective Jul 1935 91 · The Baffle Picture · Anon. · pz Popular Detective Jul 1935 92 · The Sword of Death · Oscar Schisgall · nv Popular Detective Jul 1935 113 · Tombstone · Laurence A. Spence · vi Popular Detective Jul 1935 114 · Mr. Quick and the Dead · Paul Hawk · nv Popular Detective Jul 1935 144 · Official Business · The Chief · ed Popular Detective Jul 1935

Popular Detective (Canada) [October 1936] (15¢, pulp) Incomplete Data - Issue not found - probably identical contents to the US issue of the same date. Need Contents Bloody Hundred [Red Lacey] · George Bruce · nv Popular Detective Oct 1936 Murder Mosaic · Paul Ernst · nv Popular Detective Oct 1936 Million Dollar Loot [Limping Ghost] · Eugene Thomas · nv Popular Detective Oct 1936

Popular Detective (Canada) [v21 #2, October 1941] (Better Publications; Toronto, 15¢, 128pp+, pulp) Reprint of the June 1941 (US) issue, plus three stories from other magazines. Details supplied by Rob Preston. 2 · Official Business · The Chief · ed Popular Detective Jun 1941 4 · Death at Quarry Castle · Roy Marr · nv Popular Detective Jun 1941 26 · The Shadowsmith Investigates · Owen Fox Jerome · ss Popular Detective Jun 1941 36 · The Fighting Clown · David Brandt · nv Popular Detective Jun 1941 49 · Chinese New Year · Oscar J. Friend · ss G-Men Detective May 1941, as by Owen Fox Jerome 56 · Alibi Bye [Willie Klump] · Joe Archibald · ss Popular Detective Jun 1941 66 · Front—for Murder · Leo Hoban · nv Popular Detective Jun 1941 85 · Some Day I’ll Kill You · Emile C. Tepperman · ss G-Men Detective May 1941 94 · Blue Thunder on the Left · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Popular Detective Jun 1941 102 · The Murderer Within · Norman A. Daniels · ss Popular Detective Jun 1941 112 · The Axe Is Ever Thirsty · Stewart Sterling · ss (r)

Popular Detective (Canada) [v21 #3, January 1942] (The American News Company Limited; Toronto, 15¢, 128pp+, pulp) Partial reprint of the August 1941 (US) issue, plus three stories from other magazines. Details supplied by Monte Herridge. 2 · Official Business · The Chief · ed (r) 4 · The Samurai Sword Murders [Dan Fowler] · Don Tracy · na G-Men Detective Mar 1941 51 · Mirror of Murder · John A. Saxon · nv Popular Detective Aug 1941 68 · Socks and Blondes [Willie Klump] · Joe Archibald · ss Popular Detective Aug 1941 78 · He’s in the Death House · W. T. Ballard · nv Popular Detective Aug 1941 98 · Seasoned Crime · Donald Bayne Hobart · ss Popular Detective Aug 1941, as by C. K. M. Scanlon 106 · Snooty · William Degenhard · ss Popular Detective Aug 1941 115 · The Discontented Cows · Fredric Brown · ss G-Men Detective Mar 1941; given as by Frederick Brown. 121 · Death on the Bounce · John Wallace · ss Black Book Detective May 1941

Popular Detective (Canada) [May 1942] (15¢, pulp) Incomplete Data - Issue not found. Need Contents The Eyes of Death [Dan Fowler] · Stewart Sterling · na G-Men Detective Nov 1941

Popular Detective (Canada) [August 1942] (15¢, pulp) Incomplete Data - Issue not found. Need Contents The Hobby Murders · Joseph J. Millard · na Popular Detective Feb 1942 Dying to Meet You · G. T. Fleming-Roberts · nv Popular Detective Feb 1942 Death Deals in Diamonds · W. T. Ballard · nv Thrilling Detective Dec 1941

Popular Detective (Canada) [December 1942] (15¢, pulp) Incomplete Data - Issue not found. Need Contents Murder on Furlough · Marvin Ryerson · nv Popular Detective Dec 1942 Death Takes No Holiday · W. T. Ballard · nv Popular Detective Dec 1942

Popular Detective (Canada) [v24 #2, September 1943] (The American News Company Limited; Toronto, 15¢, 112pp+, pulp) Reprint of the February 1943 (US) issue, plus five stories from other magazines. Details supplied by John Locke. 3 · Camelback Kill [Dr. Zeng Tse-Lin] · Walt Bruce · na Popular Detective Feb 1943 40 · A Fair Trade · John Hawkins · ss Thrilling Detective Mar 1942 43 · Death Is a Noise · Fredric Brown · nv Popular Detective Feb 1943 57 · Lost—One Diamond Necklace · Robert Wallace · ss Black Book Detective May 1943 61 · Don’t Tell the Police · William Morrison · nv Popular Detective Feb 1943 73 · Police Witness · Donald Bayne Hobart · ss Black Book Detective Sep 1941, as by Frank Johnson 76 · Monkey Business · Allan K. Echols · ss (r) 84 · No Murder · C. S. Montanye · ss Popular Detective Feb 1943 87 · Of Maestros and Gunmen [Willie Klump] · Joe Archibald · ss Popular Detective Feb 1943; illustrated by Joe Archibald 97 · The Break · Tom Curry · ss Argosy Jan 11 1930 99 · Open That Door · G. Wayman Jones · ss Popular Detective Feb 1943 106 · Night Out for Suki · Sam Merwin, Jr. · ss Exciting Detective Fll 1942 109 · Official Business · The Chief · ed Popular Detective Feb 1943