DIME DETECTIVE certainly gave BLACK MASK a run for its money as the best of the hardboiled detective pulps. In this issue you've got Carroll John Daly's Race Williams, a classic story by Raymond Chandler, and a story by one of the top pulpsters, Frederick C. Davis. Plus a pretty distinctive cover, too. There's a good reason people collect DIME DETECTIVE.
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Great cover and I've owned several copies of this issue over the years. Now with Raymond Chandler and in decent condition it can bring upwards of a thousand dollars. Artist Rafael Desoto once told me you can't go wrong with skeletons and pretty girls on the cover.
While skeletons are cool, I say you can't go wrong with a pretty girl on the cover, period.
I've always been impressed with what I've read from Dime Detective. I wish I could afford some copies. Still, there are enough that have been reprinted that I can't complain too much.
Keith is right about the reprints from DIME DETECTIVE. Altus Press has recently published several collections called The Dime Detective Library. Each volume reprints stories starring a series character like The Rambler, Mr. Maddox, The Marquis of Broadway, Keyhole Kerry, Inspector Allhoff, etc.
And didn't DD, along with DIME MYSTERY, start as a shudder item, then markedly improve shortly thereafter as the Even Better source of hardboiled fiction once Ken White was editing it/them?
The covers of the early issues of DIME DETECTIVE do have a Weird Menace look about them. It's hard to tell from the fiction listing in the FMI, lots of familiar names like Gardner, Daly, and Flynn.
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