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For the Fans of Hardboiled, Pulp & Gumshoe Art

Back in 2013, our tumblr site was started and ran until 2018, when they decided it was too "adult" - too lurid, supposedly. We followed the exodus to newtumbl and four years of dedication vanished in June of 2023. That work was not only new posts but upgrades of hundreds of old tumblr posts as well. So far, there has been no way to rescue those posts, so this will be the third version of this project. And, I'll warn you in advance, I may slip in covers that are not crime or mystery but just because I like the artwork. Enjoy!

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Day: July 4, 2024

December 1936 issue ~ cover art by Harwood Forsgren

December 1936

cover art by Harwood Forsgren

Posted on July 4, 2024July 1, 2024Categories Hardboiled, magazine, pulp, true crimeTags front page detective, harwood forsgren, smokingLeave a comment on December 1936 issue ~ cover art by Harwood Forsgren

February 1947 issue

February 1947

cover art by Gloria Stoll?

Posted on July 4, 2024July 1, 2024Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags blood trail, d.l. champion, detective tales magazine, pegleg, russell bender, william r. coxLeave a comment on February 1947 issue

August 1948 issue

August 1948

Posted on July 4, 2024July 1, 2024Categories magazine, true crimeTags pulp illustration, true police cases magazineLeave a comment on August 1948 issue

December 1946 issue ~ cover art by Richard Cardiff

December 1946

cover art by Richard Cardiff

Posted on July 4, 2024July 1, 2024Categories Hardboiled, magazine, pulp, true crimeTags dame, masquerade, richard cardiff, true detective magazineLeave a comment on December 1946 issue ~ cover art by Richard Cardiff

1956 Dell reissue ~ cover art by William Rose

1953 Scribner hardcover

1956 Dell reissue

cover art by William Rose

Posted on July 4, 2024July 1, 2024Categories finest kind, mystery, paperback, pulpTags dame, dell paperback, femme fatale, leslie ford, william roseLeave a comment on 1956 Dell reissue ~ cover art by William Rose

May 1936 issue ~ cover art by Jerome Rozen

May 1936

cover art by Jerome Rozen

William Powell in The Thin Man Goes Home, 1945

better image than previously posted

Posted on July 4, 2024June 23, 2024Categories action fiction, crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags hollywood fiction, jerome rozen, nick carter magazine, nick charles, theodore a. tinsley, thin man, william powellLeave a comment on May 1936 issue ~ cover art by Jerome Rozen

May 1958 issue

May 1958

Posted on July 4, 2024July 1, 2024Categories magazine, true crimeTags crime expose magazine, pulp illustrationLeave a comment on May 1958 issue

cover art by Chuck Pyle

2007 Hard Case Crime reissue with cover art by Chuck Pyle

originally published in 1964 as The Sex Shuffle as by Sheldon Lord

Posted on July 4, 2024July 1, 2024Categories crime fiction, finest kind, Hardboiled, paperback, pulp, spicyTags ace of hearts, ace of spades, beacon paperback, chuck pyle, dame, femme fatale, hard case crime, lawrence block, sheldon lord, smokingLeave a comment on cover art by Chuck Pyle

June 1937 issue

June 1937

better image than previously posted

Posted on July 4, 2024July 1, 2024Categories magazine, pulp, true crimeTags daring detective magazine, smoking, thugLeave a comment on June 1937 issue
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