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    Real Detective
    Title changed from Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories.

    • Publishers:
      • Real Detective Tales, Inc.; 1050 N. LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL: Real Detective

    • Editors:

    Real Detective [v23 #1, July 1931] ed. Edwin Baird (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Alec Redmond)
    • 6 · A Chat with the Chief · [The Editor] · cl
    • 10 · The Red Knock at the Door · Carter Dale · ar
    • 18 · The Nob Hill Mystery Murder · Philip B. Sharpe · ar
    • 24 · Manhattan on the Make · Gerald Dudley McClean · ar
    • 30 · The Murder Mystery Farm · Richard Long Harkness · ar
    • 34 · My Life as a Dope Fiend · Mike Owsley · ar
    • 40 · The Great $50,000 Faro Mystery Is Solved! · Anon. · pi
    • 41 · “Legs” Diamond Again Stalked by Death · Anon. · pi
    • 42 · A Cyclone of Crime Sweeps Chicago’s Gold Coast · Anon. · pi
    • 44 · Women and Girls in the Police News of the Month · Anon. · pi
    • 46 · Missing Girls and Wanted Men · Anon. · pi
    • 47 · Who Murdered These Four Girls? · Anon. · pi
    • 48 · Wealthy Men Kidnapped for $250,000 · Anon. · pi
    • 49 · Two Men and a Woman—and a “Toast of Death” · Anon. · pi
    • 50 · Has the Lingle Murder Mystery Been Solved? · Paul Thorne · ar
    • 59 · Manhattan News Flash · Tom O’Sullivan · cl
    • 62 · How Al Capone Was “Put on the Spot” · Bruce Pope · ar

    Real Detective [v23 #2, August 1931] ed. Edwin Baird (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Alec Redmond)
    Details taken from Table of Contents.
    • A Chat with the Chief · [The Editor] · cl
    • What Your Penmanship Tells · Roger Derrick, M.A. · cl
    • The Hollywood Girl Bazaar · Philip B. Sharpe · pi
    • The Red Torch Bearers · Carter Dale · pi
    • My Life in Prison · Lawrance Maynard · ar
    • How Dope Was Sold to Me in Penitentiaries · Mike Owsley · ar
    • The “Zee Zee” Horrors of San Francisco · Dean S. Jennings · ar
    • Manhattan News Flash · Tom O’Sullivan · cl
    • Mistress of Murder · Gerald Dudley McClean · ar
    • The End of Al Capone · Bruce Pope · ar
    • Six Police Heroes and a Police Heroine · Anon. · pi
    • Jake, the Barber, Shears $6,000,000 from Suckers · Anon. · pi
    • Thirteen Girls and Women in the Police Spotlight · Anon. · pi
    • Gambling, Divorce, and Whoopee in Reno, the “Wide-Open” Town · Anon. · pi
    • Two Desperate Gunmen Battle for Hours with 300 New York Police · Anon. · pi
    • New Crime Wave Hits Washington, D.C.—Nine Killed · Anon. · pi
    • Kirkland Murder Trial Ends in Confusion and Uproar · Anon. · pi
    • A Trio of Showgirls “Run In” With the Law · Anon. · pi
    • A Page of Gangsters’ Molls · Anon. · pi

    Real Detective [v23 #3, September 1931] ed. Edwin Baird (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Alec Redmond)
    • 6 · A Chat with the Chief · [The Editor] · cl
    • 10 · U.S. Army Records Prove Al Capone Is Dead · Anon. · ar
    • 16 · The Hopheads of Hollywood · Philip B. Sharpe · ar
    • 24 · Why Starr Faithfull Was Murdered · Gerald Dudley McClean · ar
    • 31 · Crime Wave Hits Philadelphia · David Leighton · ar
    • 35 · The Racketeering of Missions and Evangelists · Mike Owsley · ar
    • 40 · “Tex” and the French Police · Anon. · pi
    • 41 · Busy Days for Bathing Beach Cops · Anon. · pi
    • 42 · High Spots in the Month’s Outstanding Crime News · Anon. · pi
    • 44 · Cornelius Vanderbilt and Peter Arno · Anon. · pi
    • 46 · Sixteen Girls and Women in the Month’s Detective News · Anon. · pi
    • 48 · The Mayor Starts to Clean up Chicago · Anon. · pi
    • 49 · One Thousand Cops Guard $240,000,000 · Anon. · pi
    • 50 · The Fiendish Girl Murders of California · Robert Sothern · ar
    • 58 · The Red Plot Against the World · Carter Dale · ar
    • 64 · Murder in the House of Hate · Merlin Moore Taylor · ar
    • 72 · Manhattan News Flash · Tom O’Sullivan · cl
    • 80 · What Your Penmanship Tells · Roger Derrick, M.A. · cl

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