Even this late in its run, DIME DETECTIVE looks like a pretty darned good pulp. This issue has a Norman Saunders cover, and the line-up of authors inside is really strong: John D. MacDonald, Richard Deming, Talmage Powell, Philip Ketchum, Larry Holden (Frederick Lorenz), Harry Widmer, Dane Gregory, and Albert Simmons. Some of those aren't as well-known as the top guys, of course, but with a Popular Publications pulp, chances are their stories are pretty entertaining.
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Popular was in financial trouble, its pulps were dying. Popular Publications stopped publishing most of its detective pulps in 1951, leaving only three: Dime Detective, Detective Tales and New Detective. Authors had fewer markets and those that still published got the cream. The Dane Gregory story is a reprint from 1941.
Still, that's a good lineup. I reviewed this issue some time earlier:
https://pulpflakes.com/blog/2019/03/issue-review-dime-detective-magazine-august-1952/
Sai, that's a good review. Thanks for the link. It sounds like the best stories in this issue were by those lesser-known names. That certainly happens sometimes. It doesn't appear that Albert Simmons published any books, at least not under that name.
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