Nothing like a beautiful blonde with a Tommy gun, as Rudolph Belarski demonstrates on this cover. There are some good authors in this issue of POPULAR DETECTIVE, including Stewart Sterling with a Gil Vine novelette (Gil Vine was a private detective in the pulps who became a house dick in a hotel when Sterling moved him to novels). Also on hand are Philip Ketchum (best known for his Westerns), O.B. Myers (best known for aviation yarns), Ray Cummings (best known for his science fiction), and detective pulp stalwarts J. Lane Linklater and Will Oursler, plus little-known, at least to me, Lew Talian and B.J. Benson.
For some reason, I like this cover. The colors are eye-catching, the couple seem so suave and sophisticated, and yet there's the element of action with the bullet shattering the glass. I guess that's three reasons I like it, isn't it? Inside there's a Saint story by Leslie Charteris (one of my favorite series and authors), as well as stories by Q. Patrick (the guys who also wrote as Patrick Quentin, usually pretty good), Will Oursler (whose name is familiar to me, but I don't know why), O.B. Myers (who I think of as an aviation pulp author), and Leslie Gordon Barnard (who I never heard of). I'd read this issue just for the Saint story.
