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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.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1948

#1
Feb
#2
Mar

#3
Jun

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.

— Detective Classics

Title changed from Soldier Stories.

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

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1929

v1 #5
Nov

1930
v1 #6
Jan
v1 #7
Feb
v1 #8
Mar
v1 #9
Apr
v1 #10
May
v1 #11
Jun
v1 #12
Jul
v2 #1
Aug
v2 #2
Sep
v2 #3
Oct
v2 #4
Nov
v2 #5
Dec

1931
v2 #6
Jan
v2 #7
Feb
v2 #8
Mar
v2 #9
Apr
v2 #10
May
v2 #11
Jun
v2 #12
Jul
v3 #1
Aug
v3 #2
Sep

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:

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.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1940

v1 #1
Apr

— Red Star Detective

Title changed from Detective Dime Novels.

Publishers: The Frank A. Munsey Company; 280 Broadway, New York, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1940

v1 #2
Jun

v1 #3
Aug

v1 #4
Oct

Detective-Dragnet Magazine (about)

--- see under Ten Detective Aces.

Detective Fiction (about)

A short-lived monthly magazine of mainly Australian stories.

Publishers: Frank Johnson, Sydney.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1948

v1 #1
Dec

1949 v1 #2
Jan v1 #3
Feb v1 #4
Mar

Detective Fiction Weekly (about)

--- see under Flynn’s.

Detective Fiction Weekly (Canada) (about)

--- see under Flynn’s Detective Fiction (Canada).

Detective Files (about)

All three issues state that all the contents are “true stories”, but the magazine is included here because it was indexed in Monthly Murders as “fiction”.

Publishers: Caravan Books, Inc.; 1 West 47th Street, New York 36, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1956
#101
#102
#103

The Detective Library (about)

A short-lived pulp magazine which printed a single novel in each issue, the first of which, at least, was a reprint.

Publishers: Clayton Magazines, Inc.; 155 East 44th Street, New York, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1932

v1 #1
Mar

v1 #2
Jun

The Detective Magazine (about)

Fortnightly British pulp magazine which ran between 1922 & 1925. Each issue featured a mixture of fiction and non-fiction. Details supplied by Steve Holland.