True crime.

Total Issues: 65

Fortnightly British pulp magazine which ran between 1922 & 1925. Each issue -- superbly illustrated by a variety of artists, most of them Amalgamated Press regulars -- is a mixture of fiction and non-fiction; the early issues contained the serialisation of "Flat 2" by Edgar Wallace and offered a £500 prize to the reader who could come up with the best solution to the mystery; Wallace's own solution was published a few months after the third episode appeared.

George Dilnot, the editor, was a well-known crime journalist of the time, editing a number of volumes of books about famous trials; he was also a former editor of Answers, and wrote "The Romance of the Amalgamated Press"; clearly a favoured son of the company. Dilnot used his contacts at Scotland Yard and seems to have hired every ex-Chief Det.-Insp. that ever worked there to write articles. In the fiction department, he often relied on American reprints, but there's some very interesting British authors tucked away in these old pages too.

Total Issues: 12 (at least)

Another thin Australian digest printing original stories mainly by Australian authors, with a few British authors (probably with retitled reprint stories).

Total Issues: 1

Total Issues: 55

New mysteries and who-done-its "in the pulp tradition".

True crime.

Total Issues: 67

For most of its life Detective Novels Magazine offered two short novels, a small selection of short stories and a few features as fillers, mainly on a bimonthly schedule, and is best known for the two series of stories featuring Jerry Wade (the Candid Camera Kid) and The Crimson Mask. In 1944 the format changed to featuring just a single "novel" and a handful of short stories and the title was changed accordingly to Detective Novel Magazine.

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Canadian reprint edition of Detective Novel(s) Magazine.

British reprint edition of Detective Novel(s) Magazine.

Total Issues: 1

One-shot crime fiction magazine which promised "all new fast moving and action packed stories".

True crime. Comic with artwork by George Brenner, Will Eisner and others.

Total Issues: 1

MDE says the issue is "all true detective cases except one fictional story" but that one story is a reprint from Saucy Detective Stories where it is listed (by MDE) as non-fiction. The cover suggests it is a pure true crime mag.

Canadian reprint edition of Detective Romances.

Total Issues: 25

Total Issues: 4

Small pamphlet magazines issued shortly after the end of the Second World War when paper rationing was at its height.

Total Issues: 26

Detective Short Stories specialised in unflagging, unsubtle and ferocious action, with covers typically featuring girls in torn clothes, tied up and in fearful danger. Despite the relatively poor quality of most of the stories, the magazine lasted for six years from 1943 to 1947, followed four years later by a single issue from a different publisher.

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