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Tag: thrilling detective magazine

April 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

April 1940

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Posted on February 12, 2024December 20, 2023Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags a.t. locke, axe, chained, maurice tessler, rafael desoto, thrilling detective magazineLeave a comment on April 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1943 issue

May 1943

Posted on January 11, 2024December 17, 2023Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags airport, douglas newton, g.t. fleming-roberts, thrilling detective magazineLeave a comment on May 1943 issue

May 1934 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1934

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

[image updated 2/7/24]

Posted on January 11, 2024February 7, 2024Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags crone, george allan moffatt, norman a. daniels, rafael desoto, thrilling detective magazine, witchLeave a comment on May 1934 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

November 1933 issue

November 1933

Posted on January 6, 2024May 26, 2025Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags allan k. echols, earl w. scott, g. wayman jones, james h.s. moynahan, johnston mcculley, thrilling detective magazineLeave a comment on November 1933 issue

June 1943 issue

June 1943

better image than previously posted

Posted on December 1, 2023April 20, 2024Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags berkeley gray, dame, femme fatale, handcuffs, moll, pulp art, thrilling detective magazine, w.t. ballard, woman with a gunLeave a comment on June 1943 issue

March 1933 issue

March 1933

[updated 2/6/24]

Posted on November 28, 2023October 30, 2025Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags arthur j. burks, frederick c. painton, ghoul, pulp art, thrilling detective magazineLeave a comment on March 1933 issue

March 1935 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Format ImagePosted on November 27, 2023April 20, 2024Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags c.k.m. scanlon, norman a. daniels, pulp art, rafael desoto, richard b. sale, thrilling detective magazineLeave a comment on March 1935 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

cover art by Ron Lesser

Ron Lesser


Thrilling Detective, Deadly Dames #1, unpublished painting
Oil on Masonite
24 x 19.25 in.
Signed lower right

Posted on November 22, 2023April 20, 2024Categories finest kind, magazine, pulpTags dame, femme fatale, finest kind, pulp art, ron lesser, thrilling detective magazine, woman with a gunLeave a comment on cover art by Ron Lesser

January 1938 issue

January 1938

Posted on November 14, 2023April 20, 2024Categories government agent, Hardboiled, magazine, pulpTags feds, g.t. fleming-roberts, Hardboiled, lawrence g. blochman, mardi gras, pulp art, thrilling detective magazineLeave a comment on January 1938 issue

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