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  Title Page

  Bibliography: chronological

  Bibliography: alphabetical

  The Pulps: A Short History

  Epigraph

  1920s

  THE HARDEST KIND OF HARD - Lewen Hewitt

  THE FALSE BURTON COMBS - Carroll John Daly

  IT’S GREAT TO BE GREAT - Thomas Thursday

  THE ASSISTANT MURDERER - Dashiel Hammett

  DRY ROT - James Hendryx

  A SHRIEK IN THE NIGHT - Sewell Peaslee Wright

  1930s

  THE CORPSE ON THE GRATING - Hugh B. Cave

  THE AVALANCHE MAKER - W. Ryerson Johnson

  A TRIP TO CZARDIS - Edwin Granberry

  MURDER ON THE LIMITED - Howard Finney

  THE DEADLY ORCHID - T.T. Flynn

  “TAKE ’IM ALIVE” - Walter C. Scott

  DOUBLE CHECK - Thomas Walsh

  THE DEATH CLUB - George Harmon Coxe

  LIVE BAIT - E. Hoffmann Price

  PAID IN BLOOD - Anthony Clemens

  “SWEET SUE” - Bill Williams

  1935

  NIGHT SCENE - Jerome Severs Perry

  GREEN DOOM - Carroll Mayers

  THE WILL - Richard B. Sale

  HEAT FROM TEXAS - W.W. McKenna

  MAKE-UP FOR MURDER - Thomas King

  BODY RANSOM - Arthur Wallace

  1936

  BOOMERANG BLADE - Norman A. Daniels

  DICKS DIE HARD - Theodore Tinsley

  THE ANGRY DEAD - Chandler H. Whipple

  THE YELLOW CURSE - Lars Anderson

  DEATH IN THE PATIO - W.T. Ballard

  GOLDFISH - Raymond Chandler

  THE DILEMNA OF THE DEAD LADY - Cornell Woolrich

  HELL’S SIPHON - George Harmon Coxe

  MURDERER’S BAIT - Jerome Severs Perry

  1937

  TRIGGER MEN - Eustace Cockrell

  SHE WAITS IN HELL - Paul Ernst

  UNDERCOVER CHECKMATE - Steve Fisher

  LAST CHANCE ACRE - Maitland Scott

  DOOM IN THE BAG - Dale Clark

  THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT - Richard Wormser

  KILLERS MUST ADVERTISE - H.H. Stinson

  MURDER FOR NOTHING - Jeremy Lane

  RACE WITH DEATH - Marian Gailor Squire

  WANTED BY THE D.A. - Avin H. Johnston

  HIGH-VOLTAGE HOMICIDE - Frankie Lewis

  1938

  MURDER MUDDLE - James Howard Leveque

  FIVE CENTS A LIFE - Maitland Scott

  FORTY GRAND FADEOUT - Benton Braden

  PUPPET BOSS OF DESTINY - Ernest Bean

  THE SUICIDE COTERIE - Emile C. Teppermen

  YOU CAN’T MINCE HOMICIDE - Robert S. Fenton

  THE MIRACLE MAN - Eric Howard

  COP’S WIFE - John Jay Chichester

  NEVER TRUST A COP - W.T. Ballard

  THE SINISTER CURTAIN - Kenneth Keith

  DEATH IN THE DARK - Theodore Tinsley

  AUCTION OF THE DAMNED - Donald Bayne Hobart

  MEMO FOR MURDER - Leo Stalnaker

  1939

  THE DEATH KISS - Lew McCoy

  SATAN’S BONEYARD - Leon Dupont

  I’LL BE WAITING - Raymond Chandler

  DEVIL’S BILLET DOUX - Cliff Howe

  1940

  THE BLACK NARCISSUS - Neil Miller

  DEATH LISTENS IN - Arthur Leo Zagat

  ONLY HUMAN - H.G. Merz

  THE SECONDHAND MURDERS - Ben Conlon

  AGENT FOR MURDER - William Campbell Gault

  CORPSE CURRENT - Wallace Umphrey

  MURDER BREEDER - Mark Harper

  MURDER ON BEAT - Joseph H. Hernandez

  TWO FOR A CORPSE - Lawrence Treat

  KILLER’S LUNCH HOUR - Lloyd Llewell

  MOONLIGHT SAVING - E.O. Umsted

  TOO TOUGH - John Graham

  THE RED TIDES - Cornell Woolrich

  FIVE-STAR FURY - Tom B. Stone

  WELCOME FOR KILLERS - John P. Rees

  A SUCKER FOR BULLETS - James A. Kirch

  HOMICIDE DETOUR - Stephen McBarron

  KILLER AT LARGE - Edward Ronns

  TO HELL WITH DEATH - Cyril Plunkett

  1941

  DEATH FOR COPS - G.T. Fleming-Roberts

  EYES OF THE MAGNATE - William L. Hopson

  HELL-BENT FOR THE MORGUE - Don Larson

  HOMICIDE DOMAIN - Harris Clivesey

  SUICIDE SOUVENIR - Dennis Layton

  THE PHANTOM WITNESS - Clark Frost

  SLENDER CLUE - E.D. Gardner

  CRIME BY CHART - Harl Vincent

  MAN FROM THE WRONG TIME-TRACK - Denis Plimmer

  ONE ESCORT—MISSING OR DEAD - Roger Torrey

  THE SILENT WITNESS - H. Frederic Young

  MISS DYNAMITE - Peter Dawson

  SEASONED CRIME - Donald Bayne Hobart

  SUICIDE HOOK-UP - Albert G. Robinson

  BLONDE DEATH - Dale Clark

  HOMICIDE WHOLESALE - Harold Q. Masur

  DEAD END - William Beggarate

  MURDER BY INSTALLMENT - Eric Preston

  YOU BUILT A FRAME FOR ME - Leonard B. Rosborough

  1942

  CRIME’S CLIENT - Guy Fleming

  OFF THE RECORD - Robert Wallace

  ONE HUNDRED BUCKS PER STIFF - J. Lloyd Conrich

  DEATH IS TOO EASY - Arthur J. Burks

  KIDNAPPED EVIDENCE - Joseph J. Millard

  ONE MORE MURDER - G.T. Fleming-Roberts

  DEATH GOES DANCING - John K. Butler

  TOO MANY ANGLES - Calvin L. Boswell

  BLOOD IN THE RAIN - Edward Sullivan

  COPS ARE SMART, TOO - George Armin Shaftel

  SCARECROWS DON’T BLEED - Joe Archibald

  THROUGH THE WALL - G.T. Fleming-Roberts

  THE ROAD TO CARMICHAEL’S - Richard Wormser

  DETOUR TO DEATH - John Lawrence

  HOURS OF GRACE - Marion Mitchell Morrison

  THE KILLER TYPE - William Decatur

  DOUBLE DYNAMITE - Charles Smith

  FREIGHT TROUBLE - L.K. Frank

  FIFTY-GRAND FUNERAL - David X. Manners

  MORTGAGE ON MURDER - Benton Braden

  1943

  THE DOUBLE-CROSSING CORPSE - Day Keene

  MURDER ON SANTA CLAUS LANE - William G. Bogart

  SHE’LL MAKE A GORGEOUS CORPSE - Eric Provost

  THEN LIVE TO USE IT - Greta Bardet

  GIVE THE GUY A CHANCE - Thomas Thursday

  THE LADY IN THE CASE - Lee E. Wells

  LITTLE PIECES - C.S. Montanye

  THE MENTAL BLOODHOUND - Helmar Lewis

  RED BLOOD AND GREEN SOAP - Dale Clark

  MAIL ME MY TOMBSTONE - Charles Larson

  EIGHT HOURS TO KILL - Lee E. Wells

  HOUSE OF DEATH - Lew Merrill

  THESE SHOES ARE KILLING ME - Leroy Yerxa

  A KNIFE IN THE CHEST - Dale Clark

  CLOSE TO A CORPSE - Donald Bayne Hobart

  FRAGILE EVIDENCE - Lee Fredericks

  WHITE HEAT - Arthur J. Burks

  O’SHEEN’S PHOTO FINISH - Leroy Yerxa

  HOT-SEAT FALL GUY - E.Z. Elberg

  ROCK-A-BYE BOOBY - Richard Brister

  THE KILLER CAME HOME - Robert C. Dennis

  1944

  LITTLE OLD LADY - Owen Fox Jerome

  HANDMADE HERO - Lee Tilburne

  ADOPTED FOR DEATH - Donald G. Cormack

  A SLIP IN CRIME - Greta Bardet

  ACTION AT HOME - Benjamin Pool

  DEATH HAS A C-BOOK - Ha
l K. Wells

  THE PIN-UP GIRL MURDERS - Laurence Donovon

  CORPSES LEAVE ME COLD - David X. Manners

  MURDER RIDES BEHIND THE SIREN - Prescott Chaplin

  TEA PARTY FRAME-UP - Robert Martin

  MURDER ON THE MENU - Michael O’Brien

  MEMPHIS BLUES - Frank Johnson

  A DRINK FOR AUNT LOUISA - Francis Fredricks

  ATTAR OF HOMICIDE - Donald C. Cameron

  HOW MANY CARDS FOR THE CORPSE? - Joe Kent

  ONCE THERE WAS A WOLF— - Bert Collier

  SAVE A GRAVE FOR ME! - Dane Gregory

  VOICE OF THE DEAD - Ted Stratton

  I DIDN’T DO IT! - Cliff Campbell

  FRIENDLESS CORPSE - Arthur Mann

  RX TO HOMICIDE - John A. Saxon

  THE CORPSE THAT PLAYED DEAD - A. Boyd Correll

  1945

  DEATH ON THE METER - Edward Ronns

  DEATH PAINTS A PICTURE - Russell Gray

  TIME TO KILL - Leo Hoban

  DIBBLE DABBLES IN DEATH - David Wright O’Brien

  HOMECOMING IN HELL! - Ken Lewis

  TWENTY GRAND LEG - Walter Wilson

  I DIE DAILY - H. Wolff Salz

  TRACKS IN THE SNOW - Samuel Mines

  DARK HORIZONS - William G. Bogart

  DEAD MAN’S NERVE - Jack Bradley

  MURDER AFTER THE FACT - E.C. Marshall

  SLAYER’S KEEPERS - T.W. Ford

  THE BIG MONEY MAN - Wayland Rice

  A SNITCH IN TIME - E.C. Marshall

  HOMICIDE AT THE 5 AND 10 - Stewart Toland

  MURDER IN SMALL PACKAGES - William Rough

  DEATH PLAYS SANTA CLAUS - Johnston McCulley

  MERRY CHRISTMAS, COOPER - Johnston McCulley

  1946

  DEAD MAN’S GIFT - Ben Frank

  MURDER OFF THE RECORD - Bill Morgan

  THEY GAVE HIM A BADGE! - John Corbett

  COUNTRY CADAVER - Ken Lewis

  NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO DIE - Anthony Tompkins

  DEATH IN THE GROOVE - Thorne Lee

  HE HUNG TOO HIGH - Berna Morris

  IT’S TIME TO GO HOME - William G. Bogart

  OBJECTIVE-MURDER! - William R. Cox

  BLACK OF THE MOON - Merle Constiner

  DON’T MEDDLE WITH MURDER - C.S. Montayne

  THE HIGH-POWERED CORPSE - E.C. Marshall

  TOP IT OFF WITH DEATH - Basil Wells

  PLEASE, I KILLED HIM - Wayland Rice

  YOU’LL DIE LAUGHING - William Lawrence Hamling

  THE BLUE STEEL SQUIRREL - Frank R. Read

  BROTHER COP AND BROTHER RAT - Donald Bump

  EASY KILL - William Hellman

  MURDER RIDES HIGH - Leonard Finley Hilts

  THE TRIANGULAR BLADE - Carter Sprague

  MORGUE REUNION - Norman A. Daniels

  WILL FOR A KILL - Emil Petaja

  FINAL JUDGMENT - Ralph Oppenheim

  SHOOT FAST, BUT SHOOT STRAIGHT! - Sam Carson

  THE CAT CAME BACK - Ken Tillson

  1947

  A PHOTO AND A VOICE - David Goodis

  MURDER TRAIL - Anthony Tompkins

  BLUE COAT GAMBLE - Neil Moran

  THE CASE OF THE SQUEALING DUCK - George B. Anderson

  GIRL OF FEAR - Francis K. Allan

  HIGH VOLTAGE HOMICIDE - Henry Norton

  SWEET DREAMS, DARLING - Paul W. Fairman

  THE COP ON THE CORNER - David Goodis

  BABY, COME TO COPPER! - Gene Fraiser

  HOMEMADE MURDER - Rodney Worth

  WAKE UP AND DIE - Robert Turner

  HOME FOR CHRISTMAS - Larry Holden

  HOST TO HOMICIDE - Milton T. Lamb

  FLATFOOT - Hal K. Wells

  1948

  LITTLE MAN, YOU’LL HAVE A BLOODY DAY - Russell Branch

  A COLD NIGHT FOR MURDER - J. Lane Linklater

  NO LEASE ON LIFE - Allan K. Echols

  CLOSE COVER BEFORE STRIKING - Sam Merwin, Jr.

  DEATH ENDS THE YEAR - Johnston McCulley

  WRONG NUMBER - John L. Benton

  42 KEYS TO MURDER - Edward Churchill

  DON’T FOOL WITH MURDER - Robert Sidney Bowen

  HAND OF GUILT - Sam Bayne

  MURDER’S HANDYMAN - Woodrow Wilson Smith

  $10,000 AN INCH - Tedd Thomey

  BLIZZARD-BOUND CRYPT - Edward A. Herron

  DEATH BRINGS DOWN THE HOUSE - Larry Holden

  THE NIGHT BEFORE MURDER - Steve Fisher

  BADGE OF VALOR - Robert Leslie Bellem

  YOU NEVER CAN TELL - Jack Kofoed

  A BREATH OF SUSPICION - Stewart Sterling

  STILL OF THE NIGHT - Will Oursler

  COWARD’S KILL - Arthur Leo Zagat

  DON’T WAKE THE DEAD - Frank Morris

  HOMICIDE’S THEIR HEADACHE - Carl G. Hodges

  CLUE IN TRIPLICATE - Ray Cummings

  POP GOES THE QUEEN - Bob Wade and Bill Miller

  BIG TARGET - Roger Fuller

  COMPLICATION MURDER! - Charles Molyneux Brown

  DEATH COMES GIFT-WRAPPED - William P. McGivern

  DOOM ON SUNDAY - B.J. Benson

  THE KILLER’S SHOES - Robert C. Blackmon

  1949

  A SLAY RIDE FOR SANTA - Carl Memling

  KNIFE IN THE DARK - Robert Leslie Bellem

  DEAR COLD RUTH . . . - Henry Hasse

  FERRY TO A FUNERAL - James Blish

  ONE MAN’S POISON - Curt Hamlin

  TRAP THE MAN DOWN - Harold Gluck

  MAD ABOUT MURDER - Scott O’Hara

  SUE AS IN SUICIDE - C.S. Montanye

  TOO OLD TO DIE - Jack Gleoman

  1950

  THE CACKLE BLADDER - William Campbell Gault

  MANUSCRIPT OF MURDER - Peter Warren

  LADY IN RED - Alan Ritner Anderson

  GEMS GLOW WITH BLOOD - Joseph Commings

  ICE FROM A CORPSE - Ed Barcelo

  MURDER COMES CALLING - Logan Legare

  ODDS ARE ON DEATH - Ashley Calhoun

  PARTING GIFT - Frank Ward

  1951

  KILL ONE, KILL TWO - B.J. Benson

  MURDER COMES HOME - D.L. Champion

  THE TOUCH OF DEATH - Norman A. Daniels

  SHIELD FOR MURDER - William P. McGivern

  A LITTLE PSYCHOLOGY - Arnold Grant

  HEAR THAT MOURNFUL WIND - Dane Gregory

  MURDER HUNCH - John Benton

  YOU’LL KILL THE PEOPLE - Richard Brister

  1952

  MURDER WITH ONIONS - Philip Weck

  NICELY FRAMED, READY TO HANG! - Daniel Gordon

  MIRACLE ON 9TH STREET - Day Keene

  THE LONG NIGHT - Philip Ketchum

  A GRAVE IS WAITING - Bruno Fischer

  A BIER FOR BABY - Dean Evans

  STAND-IN FOR SLAUGHTER - Grover Brinkman

  1953

  AS I LIE DEAD - Fletcher Flora

  CARRERA’S WOMAN - Richard Marsten

  HOMICIDE HAUL - Robert Carlton

  GRAVEYARD SHIFT - Steve Frazee

  NICE BUNCH OF GUYS - Michael Fessier

  THE TWO O’CLOCK BLONDE - James M. Cain

  THE ICE MAN CAME - William Hopson

  THE BODY IN MY BED - William F. Schwartz

  DIE TOMORROW, PLEASE! - Buck Gilmore

  FIRST AID FOR MURDER - Bramley Fox

  ONE DUMB COP - Richard Brister

  1954

  POINTS SOUTH - Flora Fletcher

  DOUBLE - Bruno Fischer

  DIE LIKE A DOG - David Alexander

  IDENTITY UNKNOWN - Jonathan Craig

  I DON’T FOOL AROUND - Charles Jackson

  NECKTIE PARTY - Robert Turner

  STEP DOWN TO TERROR - John McPartland

  THE PICKPOCKET - Mickey Spillane

  THE PURPLE COLLAR - Jonathan Craig

  1955

  GREEN EYES - Hal Ellson

  THE FLOATER - Jonathan Craig

  THE KILLER - John D. MacDonald

  STAKEOUT - Don De Boe

  DOUBLE HOMICIDE - Robert Standish

>   1956

  DEAD MEN DON’T MOVE - Thomas Thursday

  DEATH OF A DEJECTED EDITOR - Dennis Wiegand

  SQUEALER - John D. MacDonald

  LUST SONG - Stuart Friedman

  1957

  COP FOR A DAY - Henry Slesar

  ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON - Gil Brewer

  SOMEBODY’S GOING TO DIE - Talmage Powell

  STRANGER IN THE HOUSE - Theodore Pratt

  MAY I COME IN? - Fletcher Flora

  SWAMP SEARCH - Harry Whittington

  1958

  THE PLUNGE - David Goodis

  THE SWINDLER’S WIFE - Robert Standish

  1959

  LOOK DEATH IN THE EYE - Lawrence Block

  THE $5,000 GETAWAY - Jack Ritchie

  1960s

  FOURTH GEAR TO HELL - Richard E. Geis

  THE DEADLY MRS. HAVERSHAM - Helen Nielsen

  MURDER AND THE SOUTHWIND - Mary Roberts Rhinehart

  Unknown

  DEATH OF AN AGENT - Harold Stover

  ENTER SCARFACE - Armitage Trail

  HOME IS WHERE THE HEARSE IS - William Knowles

  NIGHT OF THE THIRTEENTH - J.A. Allan

  ONE HUNCH TO HELL - Richard A. Virgil

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  CHRONOLOGICAL

  1920

  The Hardest Kind of Hard (Lewen Hewitt), Detective Story Magazine, August 3, 1920

  1922

  The False Burton Combs (Carroll John Daly), The Black Mask, December 1922

  1925

  It’s Great to Be Great! (Thomas Thursday), Top-Notch Magazine, July 15, 1925

  1926

  The Assistant Murderer (Dashiell Hammett), Black Mask, February 1926

  1927

  Dry Rot (James Hendryx), The Underworld, September 1927

  1929

  A Shriek in the Night (Sewell Peaslee Wright), Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories, April/May 1929

  1930

  The Corpse on the Grating (Hugh B. Cave), Astounding, February 1930

  1931

  The Avalanche Maker (W. Ryerson Johnson), West, July 22, 1931

  1932

  A Trip to Czardis (Edwin Granberry), The Forum, April 1932

  Murder on the Limited (Howard Finney), Detective-Dragnet Magazine, September 1932

  1933

  The Deadly Orchid (T.T. Flynn), Detective Fiction Weekly, April 15, 1933

  “Take ’Im Alive” (Walter C. Scott), The Underworld Magazine, May 1933

  Double Check (Thomas Walsh), Black Mask, July 1933

  The Death Club (George Harmon Coxe), Complete Stories, December 15, 1933

  1934

  Live Bait (E. Hoffmann Price), Alibi, April 1934

  Paid in Blood (Anthony Clemens), Secret Agent “X”, April 1934

  “Sweet Sue” (Bill Williams), 10 Story Book, July 1934

  1935

  Night Scene (Jerome Severs Perry), Spicy Detective Stories, May 1935

  Green Doom (Carroll Mayers), Secret Agent “X”, September 1935

  The Will (Richard B. Sale), Popular Detective, September 1935

  Heat From Texas (W.W. McKenna), Spicy Detective Stories, November 1935

 

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