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Tag: thrilling detective magazine

Twice the Thrills

May 1948 US issue

June 1942 UK issue

Posted on April 15, 2025March 29, 2025Categories british pulp, crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags baynard h. kendrick, fenton earnshaw, handcuffs, payphone, thrilling detective magazineLeave a comment on Twice the Thrills

June 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

June 1944

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

Posted on April 12, 2025March 29, 2025Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags francis k. allan, night club, showgirl, thrilling detective magazineLeave a comment on June 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

July 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

July 1944

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

September 25, 2013

Posted on March 17, 2025February 23, 2025Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags fredric brown, g.t. fleming-roberts, grim reaper, rudolph belarski, thrilling detective magazineLeave a comment on July 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

June 1948 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

June 1948 issue

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

September 26, 2013

Posted on March 16, 2025February 23, 2025Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags carroll john daly, private eye, race williams, rudolph belarski, thrilling detective magazineLeave a comment on June 1948 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

February 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

February 1947

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

Posted on February 20, 2025February 4, 2025Categories finest kind, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags bullet holes, c.s. montanye, pay phone, rudolph belarski, thomson burtis, thrilling detective magazineLeave a comment on February 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

October 1938 issue

October 1938

cover art by Dalton Stevens??

better image than previously posted

Posted on February 16, 2025June 21, 2025Categories Hardboiled, magazine, pulp, true crimeTags benton braden, john h. knox, kay krausse, thrilling detective magazine, ward hawkins, woman with a gunLeave a comment on October 1938 issue

April 1938 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

April 1938

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Posted on January 23, 2025January 20, 2025Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags casket, george a. mcdonald, paul ernst, rafael desoto, shackled, skeleton, theodore a. tinsley, thrilling detective magazine, turbanLeave a comment on April 1938 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

December 1944 Canadian issue

December 1944 Canadian issue

made up of stories from US 1944 issues

Posted on January 22, 2025January 20, 2025Categories canadian pulp, crime fiction, espionage fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags arson, canadian pulp, francis k. allan, lugar, nazi spy, sabotage, thrilling detective magazine, victor m. victoroffLeave a comment on December 1944 Canadian issue

July 1937 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1937

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Posted on January 12, 2025December 29, 2024Categories crime fiction, gangster, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags benton braden, rafael desoto, richard essex, thrilling detective magazine, tommygunLeave a comment on July 1937 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

August 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

August 1940

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

better image than previously posted

Posted on January 9, 2025May 22, 2025Categories action fiction, crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags beheaded, frederick c. painton, hawaii fiction, jean francis webb, racist imagery, rudolph belarski, scimitar, thrilling detective magazineLeave a comment on August 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

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