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Category: pulp

December 1934 issue ~ cover art by Delos Palmer

December 1934

cover art by Delos Palmer

Posted on September 17, 2025August 27, 2025Categories Hardboiled, magazine, original art, pulp, true crimeTags delos palmer, lindbergh kidnapping, real detective magazineLeave a comment on December 1934 issue ~ cover art by Delos Palmer

July 1939 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

July 1939

cover art by Norman Saunders

Posted on September 17, 2025August 27, 2025Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags jewel theft, norman saunders, r.b.s. davis, russell bender, ten detective aces magazineLeave a comment on July 1939 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

January 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

January 1944

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Posted on September 17, 2025August 27, 2025Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags dale clark, new detective magazine, rafael desoto, theodore roscoeLeave a comment on January 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

August 1959 issue ~ cover art by Ray Houlihan

August 1959

cover art by Ray Houlihan

Posted on September 17, 2025August 27, 2025Categories digest, Hardboiled, mystery, pulpTags manhunt digest, neil boardman, ovid demaris, ray houlihanLeave a comment on August 1959 issue ~ cover art by Ray Houlihan

McGinnis to Gasparri

1959 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by Robert McGinnis

movie poster – The Girl Who Knew Too Much – Nov 1969

pulp illustration by Rodolfo Gasparri

Posted on September 16, 2025August 27, 2025Categories crime fiction, finest kind, Hardboiled, movie poster, original art, paperback, pulpTags day keene, gold medal paperback, italian pulp, robert mcginnis, rodolfo gasparriLeave a comment on McGinnis to Gasparri

1960 Ace Double paperback original

1960 Ace Double paperback original

Bloodline for Murder

In at the Kill

better images than previously posted

Posted on September 16, 2025August 27, 2025Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, paperback, pulpTags ace double paperback, bound, dame, emmett mcdowell, stockings, woman with a gunLeave a comment on 1960 Ace Double paperback original

1950 Signet reissue

published in 1949 by Rinehart as The Leather Duke

1950 Signet reissue

10th with sleuths Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg

better image than previously posted

Posted on September 16, 2025August 27, 2025Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, paperback, pulpTags frank gruber, private eye, signet paperback, staircaseLeave a comment on 1950 Signet reissue

February 1957 issue ~ cover art by Will Husley

February 1957

cover art by Will Husley

Posted on September 16, 2025August 27, 2025Categories crime fiction, digest, Hardboiled, mystery, pulpTags bound, day keene, harlan ellison, mal manors, terror detective story magazine, will hulsey, woman with a gunLeave a comment on February 1957 issue ~ cover art by Will Husley

1931 Paramount Pictures

Sylvia Sidney as Nan Cooley

1931 Paramount Pictures

story by Dashiell Hammett

Posted on September 16, 2025August 27, 2025Categories movie poster, pulpTags dashiell hammett, gary cooper, sylvia sidney, woman with a gunLeave a comment on 1931 Paramount Pictures

Saunders & Hilkert

cover art by Norman Saunders

September 1949

better image than previously posted

10-Story Detective, September 1942 Canadian edition – cover art by John Hilkert.

Posted on September 16, 2025August 27, 2025Categories canadian pulp, crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, original art, pulpTags 10-story detective magazine, cigarette girl, dagger, john hilkert, night club, norman saunders, robinson maclean, ten detective aces magazine, tuxLeave a comment on Saunders & Hilkert

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