Mike Cook, in Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, says this was a pulp magazine that commenced in March 1942, but provides no details of it and no copy has been located. It is believed to be a misreading of the cover of Detective Tales magazine, which frequently had twelve stories as a description above the title. |
Initially reprinting Two $2.00 Mystery Novels as Two-Books Detective Magazine, the magazine changed slightly with the third issue to Two-Book Detective Magazine with a tagline of Two Full-Length Mystery Novels, each of which was original. After a couple of issues this expanded to Four Full-Length Mystery Novels which made nonsense of the title, so that was changed a few issues later to New Detective Magazine. |
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Details taken from Table of Contents. |
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Details supplied by Rob Preston. |
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Title changed from Two-Books Detective Magazine. |
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Details taken from Table of Contents. |
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Details taken from Table of Contents. |
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Details taken from Table of Contents. |
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Details supplied by Rob Preston. |
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Title changed from Two-Book Detective Magazine. |
Details supplied by John Locke. |
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Details supplied by Rob Preston. |
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Details supplied by Rob Preston. |
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Details taken from the Canadian edition, which looks identical to a US edition except inside front & back covers blank. Details supplied by Rob Preston. |
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Details supplied by Rob Preston. |
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Canadian reprint edition of Two-Book Detective Magazine/New Detective Magazine. Other issues probably exist. |
Incomplete Data - Issue not found - probably identical contents to the US issue of the same date. |
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Title changed from Two-Book Detective Magazine (Canada). |
This is identical to the US edition except that the inside front & back covers are blank. Details supplied by Rob Preston. |
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Although implying that it reprinted two full-length, published, novels in each issue, to compete with other similar magazines on the newsstand, 2 Book Mystery Magazine actually reprinted novelettes from other pulps, particularly Private Detective Stories and folded after only two issues. |
Details supplied by Steven Slutsky. |
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Two Complete Detective Books was one of the precursors of book clubs in that it afforded the general public current, full-length, fiction in the mystery/detective field at a low price. Including two complete novels in each issue it ran for 76 issues from 1939 to 1953. |
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