From James Reasoner's blog
Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Dime Detective Magazine, July 1936
Walter Baumhofer did some great covers for DIME DETECTIVE during this era, and here's another of 'em. The lineup of authors in this issue is top-notch, as well: Carroll John Daly with a Vee Brown story, T.T. Flynn, Frederick C. Davis, William E. Barrett, and Robert Sidney Bowen. Excellent writers, every one of them. DIME DETECTIVE was a consistently superb pulp during the mid-Thirties.
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Love the cover.
Not at home at the moment, so I don't have the title handy, but...I'm reading the John M. Floyd collection from Crippen & Landru. Good so far. One of the new stories bothered me. The main character in this group of stories is a PI who is presented as a movie expert, who has seen everything and makes movie connections and references constantly. Yet, here, he has a set of clues and has to figure out which of four characters is guilty of leaking company secrets to a competitor. Literally the SECOND I read it, I saw who it was. You don't need to be an expert to get it.
SPOILERS IF YOU AREN'T GOING TO READ IT:
Gone With the Wind reference - Tara, rhymes with Sara.
New Man = Paul Newman.
One word title: HARPER.
It was embarrassing to me that this "movie expert " took so long to get it
Good morning. I've posted something for this week: https://casualdebris.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyond-lies-wub-collected-stories-of.html
As we collectively blunder into 2026, Patti, let me offer my wishes for a prosperous New Year. May you, your family, and everyone who reds this blog have a year of peace, serenity, happiness, love, and health
That is a great cover on the Dime Detective Magazine.
Love those PULP covers! Happy New Year everyone!
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Love those illustrations! Wishing you a good new year!
And happy belated, Patti!
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