Sunday, July 15, 2018

Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Detective Novel Magazine, Spring 1949


This issue of DETECTIVE NOVEL MAGAZINE features an eye-catching cover by Rudolph Belarski. And that's the purpose of a pulp cover, isn't it? The featured story in this issue is a reprint (possibly abridged) of a 1939 novel by Q. Patrick, actually Richard Webb and Hugh Wheeler, who also wrote as Jonathan Stagge and their best-known pseudonym, Patrick Quentin. There are also stories by William Campbell Gault and Arthur Leo Zagat, both top-notch pulpsters, and John L. Benton, a Thrilling Group house-name, so the author of that one was probably pretty good, too.

2 comments:

Rick Robinson said...

That's a great cover.

James Reasoner said...

It sure is. If I'd been browsing the newsstand in 1949, I probably would have bought that issue if I'd had a couple of dimes in my pocket.