Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

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Real Detective [v27 #4, February 1933] ed. Edwin Baird (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 98pp, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by H. Forsgren) 6 · A Chat with the Chief · [The Editor] · cl 8 · How Gangland Seeks Control of Legalized Beer · Investigator · ar 16 · The Goldfish Room · Emanuel H. Lavine · ar 21 · Girls in the Crimelight! · Camera Man · pi 22 · Salvation for Sale · Arthur C. Zepp · ar 28 · Fourteen Dead! Who’s Next? · Dean S. Jennings · ar 34 · America’s Hobo Children · Harris Dalton · ar 40 · Washington Whirl-a-Round · Robert S. Allen · cl 45 · The Hunger Marchers · Camera Man · pi 46 · The Sex Crimes of Honolulu · Lorin Tarr Gill · ar 54 · The Hat of Doom · Ernest M. Poate · ss 57 · Manhattan News Flash · Tom O’Sullivan · cl 61 · Who Shot Captain Wanderwell? · Camera Man · pi 62 · Four Bad Boys · Camera Man · pi 63 · The Ace Wins · Norbert Davis · ss 64 · The Duplex Murder Mystery [Part 2 of 2] · Christopher B. Booth · sl 66 · A Shudder for His Lordship · Hal Andrews · nv 98 · This Girl Makes a Beautiful Bust · Camera Man · pi

Real Detective [v28 #1, March 1933] ed. West F. Peterson (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 98pp, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by H. Forsgren) 6 · A Chat with the Chief · [The Editor] · cl 8 · Through the Green Door · Lowell M. Limpus · ar 12 · Receivers’ Gold · [Special Investigators] · ar 20 · Shouts of Silence · David R. Solomon · ss 24 · Pictorial Panorama of the Month’s Crime News · Camera Man · pi 26 · The Strange Disappearance of Susan Geary · Lowell Ames Norris · ar 32 · I Was Railroaded Into a Madhouse · Craig McCallum · ss 38 · Pennsylvania’s Shocking Witchcraft Murders · James W. Booth · ar 44 · Unholy Hollywood · George Leston Street · ar 50 · These Six Girls Met Sudden Death · Camera Man · pi 52 · Jersey Justice...and Injustice · Harris Dalton · ts 57 · “King of Rackets” Is Slain · Camera Man · pi 58 · The Corpse in the Pine Woods · John N. Stanton · ar 63 · The Man on the Slab · Upton Terrell & Jan Rus · vi 64 · The Bookie Reports · Harry M. Lynch · ss 68 · Strictly Confidential [Three Fingers Durkin; Peg Leg Sheriff Barston] · John Matter · ss

Real Detective [v28 #2, April 1933] ed. West F. Peterson (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 98pp, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Alan Hughes) 6 · Talking It Over · [The Editor] · cl 8 · Guarding Roosevelt · John Alexander · ar 16 · The Mysterious Morrison Will · Earl Warren · ar 22 · Ladies of the Orchids · Edythe Dixon · ar 28 · Formula for Murder · Vincent Starrett · nv 33 · A Sweet Fursome · The Camera Man · pi 34 · The Iron Doors of Death · Philip B. Sharpe · ar 40 · Big Business—Gangsterized · Martin Fiske · ar 46 · Month’s News in Pictures · The Camera Man · pi 48 · Forty Years in Solitary · Preston L. Hickey · ar 53 · Dumb Dick · David Nowinson · vi 54 · The Barber and the Britons · Allen Thorpe · ar 60 · Turning the Pages of Our Album · The Camera Man · pi 62 · Peter Finn—Imaginizer [Peter Finn] · Arthur J. Burks · ss 65 · Executed—Yet Still Alive? · Sidney Rice · ar 67 · The Radio Hoax · Merlin Moore Taylor · ar 72 · The Calling Cards of Crime · Harris Dalton · ar 98 · And What Do You Think? · [The Readers] · lc

Real Detective [v28 #3, May 1933] ed. West F. Peterson (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 98pp, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Alan Hughes) 5 · Make Our Banks Safe! · [The Editor] · ed 6 · Talking It Over · [The Editor] · cl 8 · A Spanking for the Banks · Carter Dale · ar 12 · The Baffling Murder of the Schoolma’am Siren Murder · Hal Nelson · ar 17 · Spring Fever · Camera Man · pi 18 · The Editor Meets Commissioner Mulrooney · West F. Peterson · ar 20 · You Haven’t Got a Chance · Jack o’Spades · ar 28 · Prayer for My Enemy [Part 1 of 2] · E. Hoffmann Price · sl 32 · The Unwritten Law · Hall Clements · ar 37 · And What Do You Think? · [The Readers] · lc 38 · Bloody Kentucky...Paradox of States · Geoffrey L. Marshall · ar 44 · This Month’s Crime News in Pictures · Camera Man · pi 46 · Dealing the New Deal · Robert S. Allen · ar 50 · Pay Up or Go to Jail! · Edythe Dixon · ar 56 · 1500 Suspects · Maurice Beam · ss 60 · The Devil Takes the Pulpit · C. F. Waers · ar 66 · Riots in the Corn Belt · Everett Swingle · ar

Real Detective [v28 #4, June 1933] ed. West F. Peterson (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 98pp, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Alec Redmond) 5 · Murder Made Easy · [The Editor] · ed 6 · Talking It Over · [The Editor] · cl 8 · $60,000 Ransom · Michael F. Dacey · ar 16 · Arson—The New Menace · Peter Levins · ar 21 · A Dozen Maids and a Lady of the Bath · Camera Man · pi 22 · Politicians at the Bunghole · West F. Peterson · ar 26 · The “Hick” Detective of Mount Holy · Lowell M. Limpus · ar 31 · Death Strikes in Java · Harris Dalton · ar 34 · Michigan—The Plundered State · Henry O. Weitschat · ar 39 · Four Girls in the Month’s Crime News · Camera Man · pi 40 · Murder at the Duck Pond [Part 1 of 2] · Lawrence Keene · sl 44 · How We Trailed the “Modern Raffles” · Michael McNamara & Thomas Fitzgerald · ar 50 · The Girl Traps of California · Robert Sothern · ar 56 · Pictorial High Spots in the News · Camera Man · pi 58 · Swindling the Suckers · Jack o’Spades · ar 63 · Prayer for My Enemy [Part 2 of 2] · E. Hoffmann Price · sl 66 · The Bestial Crimes of Brooklyn · John Chase · ar 98 · And What Do You Think? · [The Readers] · lc

Real Detective [v29 #1, July 1933] ed. West F. Peterson (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 98pp, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Alec Redmond) 5 · Ten More Years · [The Editor] · ed 6 · Talking It Over · [The Editor] · cl 8 · Spilling International Secrets · Warren J. Hall · ar 12 · The Negro Sees Red! · Philip Scott · ar 20 · Hack Stand [Part 1 of 4] · William Corcoran · sl 25 · Gold Diggers · Camera Man · pi 26 · The Quest for Quejo · Joe May · ar 32 · Fighting the Alien Shakedown Racket · Bryce Oliver · ar 38 · Pictorial High Spots in the News · Camera Man · pi 40 · Light Fingers and Dancing Feet · Edythe Dixon · ar 46 · Watch Them Burn at Sing Sing! · Edward Kavanaugh · ar 51 · Tammany Victim · West F. Peterson · ar 53 · Four Girls in the Month’s Crime · Camera Man · pi 54 · When Ralph Sheldon Crossed the “Big Fellow” · Harry Read · ar 60 · Crooked Coppers · Homer Hoyt · ar 64 · From Sea to Cell · Earl Warren · ar 69 · Murder at the Duck Pond [Part 2 of 2] · Lawrence Keene · sl

Real Detective [v29 #2, August 1933] ed. West F. Peterson (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 98pp, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Alec Redmond) 5 · My Pal Morgan · [The Editor] · ed 6 · Talking It Over · [The Editor] · cl 8 · Who Stole My Jewels? · Warren J. Hall · ar 12 · Our Bankrupt Cities · [Staff Correspondents] · ar 18 · Trapping the Kidnapers of Little Peggy McMath · James L. Kilgallen · ar 25 · Fighting for His Freedom · Camera Man · pi 26 · Girl Show · Ronnie Raye · ar 32 · Boys Who Kill · Homer Hoyt · ar 38 · Headline Hunting with the Camera · Camera Man · pi 40 · The Ordeal of Peter Gann · J. Frank Adams · ss 44 · The Vengeance of Dimas-Alang · J. M. Joseph · ar 50 · The Public Utility Plunder · Bryce Oliver · ar 56 · The Calendar of Crime · Dan Foley · cl 58 · Hack Stand [Part 2 of 4] · William Corcoran · sl 62 · The Rackets of Manhattan · Arthur Mefford · ar 67 · Sailor Beware! · Camera Man · pi 98 · And What Do You Think? · [The Readers] · lc

Real Detective [v29 #3, September 1933] ed. West F. Peterson (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 98pp, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Alec Redmond) 5 · Time for Action · [The Editor] · ed 6 · Talking It Over · [The Editor] · cl 8 · The Trade at the Border · Hampton S. Smith, Jr. & Marshall Hall · ar 12 · The Starving Slaves of the Sweat Shops · John Alexander · ar 18 · Who Killed Old Man Ridley? · West F. Peterson · ar 25 · Headline Hunting with the Camera · Camera Man · pi 29 · Queens of Crime · Edythe Dixon · ar 32 · Zimma the Great · Maurice Beam · ss 36 · Killers at Large! · Clive E. Hoover · ar 42 · Through the Washington Keyhole · Robert S. Allen · ar 48 · How Ohio Police Trapped Bob Zwick...The Fox of Gangland · John Powner · ar 52 · The Calendar of Crime · Dan Foley · cl 54 · The Fiendish Murder of Rose Gendler · Merlin Moore Taylor · ar 60 · Hack Stand [Part 3 of 4] · William Corcoran · sl 62 · Foiling the California Bunco Game · J. Frank Coakley · ar 98 · And What Do You Think? · [The Readers] · lc

Real Detective [v29 #4, October 1933] ed. West F. Peterson (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 98pp, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Dalton Stevens) 5 · The Law and the Crook · [The Editor] · ed 6 · Talking It Over · [The Editor] · cl 8 · Human Loot! · John Chase · ar 16 · The Enigma of the Poison Widow · Police Chief E. F. Pierce · ar 22 · Blood on the Bible! · Grayce Lee · ar 28 · Falconer’s Brood [Part 1 of 3] · Maurice Beam · sl 32 · Turning the X-Ray on the Medical Crooks · Doctor French · ar 37 · Val O’Farrell Recommends a Scotland Yard for the United States... · West F. Peterson · ar 39 · Headline Hunting with the Camera · Camera Man · pi 43 · The Glass Eye · Dean S. Jennings · vi 44 · Special Assignment · Lowell M. Limpus · ar 50 · Famous Crimes of Yesterday: The Molineux Poison Mystery · Stuart Palmer · ar 56 · Oregon’s Hitch Hike Murder · Sheriff Martin T. Pratt · ar 62 · The Calendar of Crime · Dan Foley · cl 64 · Monster of Murder · Jack Stanton · ar 67 · Hack Stand [Part 4 of 4] · William Corcoran · sl

Real Detective [v30 #1, November 1933] ed. West F. Peterson (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 98pp, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Delos Palmer) 5 · Who Deserves the Whipping? · [The Editor] · ed 6 · Talking It Over · [The Editor] · cl 8 · $300,000 Worth of Bad Luck! · John Alexander · ar 12 · International Hostess [Part 1 of 2] · Gertrude A. McCombs · ar 18 · Chicago’s Reign of Terror · Merlin Moore Taylor · ar 24 · Trailing a Killer by Airplane · Deputy Sheriff J. M. Joseph · ar 28 · Blood Money · Zeta Rothschild · ar 32 · A Matter of Time · William A. Ucker · ss 35 · “English Bob” · John Chase · ar 36 · Famous Crimes of Yesterday: Number 2. The Murder in Echo Valley · Stuart Palmer · ar 42 · The Mystery of the Bundles of Death · Lowell M. Limpus · ar 47 · Headline Hunting with the Camera · Camera Man · pi 50 · The Slaughter of the Porra · Tom Pettey · ar 56 · The Calendar of Crime · Dan Foley · cl 58 · Falconer’s Brood [Part 2 of 3] · Maurice Beam · sl 62 · Exposing the Dangerous Beauty Quacks · Doctor French · ar 66 · And What Do You Think? · [The Readers] · lc

Real Detective [v30 #2, December 1933] ed. West F. Peterson (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 98pp, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Dalton Stevens) 5 · Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Repeal? · [The Editor] · ar 6 · Talking It Over · [The Editor] · cl 8 · Stranger Than Fiction · William Corcoran · ar 10 · Solving the Brutal Bathtub Murder of Pretty Allene Lamson · Sheriff William J. Emig · ar 18 · Bread and Water and a Lot of Hell! · Convict No. 12627 · ar 22 · The New Bad Men of the Old Wild West · Lowell M. Limpus · ar 28 · The Evil Eye of Hong Lee [Part 1 of 3] · Edward Harris · sl 32 · The Silk Stocking Mystery · Dist. Atty. Robert L. Hurt · ar 37 · Headline Hunting with a Camera · Camera Man · pi 41 · The Blind Side of Justice · Chester L. Saxby · ar 46 · Famous Crimes of Yesterday: Number 3. The Strange Business of Fancy Nancy Clem · Stuart Palmer · ar 52 · The Calendar of Crime · Dan Foley · cl 54 · The Fatal Mistake of Canada’s Art Thief · Gilbert Draper · ar 58 · International Hostess [Part 2 of 2] · Gertrude A. McCombs · ar 64 · Falconer’s Brood [Part 3 of 3] · Maurice Beam · sl

Real Detective [v30 #3, January 1934] ed. West F. Peterson (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 98pp, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Marland Stone) 5 · Civilization and the Lynch Law · [The Editor] · ed 6 · Talking It Over · [The Editor] · cl 8 · Nudism Indoors · John Lowell & Frederick Albert · ar 16 · Swift Justice in the Urschel Case · James L. Kilgallen · ar 22 · The Calendar of Crime · Dan Foley · cl 24 · A Devil’s Island for America · Moorehead Green · ar 30 · Falling Star · Maurice Beam · ss 34 · The Weird “Spirit Death” of Doctor Frank Bishop · Dean Jennings · ar 39 · Headline Hunting with a Camera · Camera Man · pi 43 · Fingerprints Don’t Lie! · James W. Booth · ar 48 · Famous Crimes of Yesterday: Number 4. The Borgia of Baltimore · Stuart Palmer · ar 54 · The Clue of the Kewpie Doll · Chief of Police H. A. MacFarlane · ar 60 · The Evil Eye of Hong Lee [Part 2 of 3] · Edward Harris · sl 64 · How Senator Lewis Kept a Condemned Slayer Alive for Ten Years · Hollis B. Fultz · ar 68 · Paying the Price · Morrison Colladay · vi

Real Detective [v30 #4, February 1934] ed. West F. Peterson (Real Detective Tales, Inc., 25¢, 98pp, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Delos Palmer) 5 · Which Governor Is Right? · [The Editor] · ed 6 · Talking It Over · [The Editor] · cl 8 · Two Janes of the Old Bowery · “The Kid” · ar 10 · California’s Mob Justice · Rene Cazenave · ar 16 · The Girl Traps of Broadway · Gertrude A. McCombs · ar 22 · Arizona’s Bloodiest Feud · Oren Arnold · ar 27 · Headline Hunting with a Camera · Camera Man · pi 30 · The Capture of Killer Rowley · Harry Read · ar 34 · Featherstone Arrives [Featherstone] · Seven Anderton · ss 38 · Pasadena’s Sensational Penthouse Murder · Lieut. Decker & Lieut. Kaighin · ar 44 · The Calendar of Crime · Dan Foley · cl 46 · Famous Crimes of Yesterday: Number Five: The Quincy Fiend · Stuart Palmer · ar 52 · The Cue to Death · John Chase · ar 56 · The Evil Eye of Hong Lee [Part 3 of 3] · Edward Harris · sl 58 · Solving Detroit’s “Perfect Crime” · Inspector John I. Navarre · ar 81 · Thumbing Through the Thrillers · [Various] · br 98 · And What Do You Think? · [The Readers] · lc

Real Detective [v31 #1, March 1934] (Real Detective Publishing Co., Inc., 25¢, 8.25" x 11.25" pulp, cover by Marland Stone) Details taken from Table of Contents. 5 · Why Sterilization? · [The Editor] · ed 6 · Talking It Over · [The Editor] · cl 8 · Strange Suicides · Martin Fiske · ar 14 · Ex-Wife’s Vengeance · Chief Deputy Millard Stockburger · ts 20 · Slaves to Dope · John Lowell · ar 27 · And What Do You Think? · [The Readers] · lc 28 · Cowboy Killer · County Attorney John Puttr-- · ar; precise name unclear. 34 · Gorgeous Baby · Borden Chase · ss 38 · Famous Crimes of Yesterday: No. 6 · Stuart Palmer · ar 43 · Headline Hunting with a Camera · Camera Man · pi 47 · Scientific Sleuth · Dean S. Jennings · ar 52 · The Dead Dog [Featherstone] · Seven Anderton · ss 56 · The Calendar of Crime · Dan Foley · cl 58 · The Puzzling Grace Murder · Harry F. Mullett · ar 62 · America’s Greatest Poison Mystery · Zeta Rothschild · ar