May 252013
 

Now there's an action-packed cover for you. I don't know who the artist was, but wouldn't that have made a great stunt in a movie? I don't know anything about Jack Smalley, who wrote the lead novel, but this issue also includes stories by Walt Coburn, Eugene Cunningham, and T.W. Ford. Definitely worth reading, I think.
May 192013
 

5 DETECTIVE NOVELS was a mostly reprint magazine from the Thrilling Group that ran for 17 issues during the late Forties and early Fifties. This issue has a nice cover and a good line-up of authors. The five novellas, all reprints from POPULAR DETECTIVE and THRILLING MYSTERY, are by T.T. Flynn (one of my favorite authors), Paul Ernst, Joseph J. Millard (Ernst and Millard were top-notch pulpsters), John Hawkins (don't know anything about him), and Frank Johnson, a Standard Publications house-name who was often Norman Daniels but there's really no telling who wrote this one. Backing up the novellas are two apparently original short stories by Arthur J. Burks and Amelia Reynolds Long, best known as one of the first female science fiction writers before she turned to mystery fiction. I probably would have read this one if I'd come across it.

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