I'm often amazed at the table of contents in some of these pulps. Like this one: stories by Leslie Charteris (a Saint yarn), Max Brand, Cornell Woolrich, Richard Sale, Cleve F. Adams, Roger Torrey, Dale Clark, and Walter Ripperger. That's all. Just a normal issue in those days.
DOUBLE DETECTIVE was a real puzzle. They used the best writers and it was an attractive magazine but it just didn't catch on. After a couple years they stopped using quality writers and it became a hero pulp with the character called The Green Lama. I've read the editors were really disappointed that the magazine failed.
ReplyDeleteI had forgotten that DOUBLE DETECTIVE was where the Green Lama appeared. I need to read some of those stories. I have the Altus Press collections. I've enjoyed the other stuff I read by Kendall Foster Crossen.
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