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Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective - January 1942
Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective eBook
January 1942
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
"Boom! An explosion of pain roared through me, blasted me all the way to my shoestrings. Klieg lights made pinwheel patterns in my glims, an atomic bomb took my grey cells apart, and I plunged into a deep black well of unconsciousness. For me it was the end of a chapter." Those inimitable words from Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, came from the pen of famed author Robert Leslie Bellem. Turner was hard-boiled shamus who made Tinsel-town his stomping grounds. Crime amongst the glitter. The character made his debut in 1934 as a short story in Spicy Detective magazine. It continued there, one of the most popular recurring characters. In January 1942, publisher Culture Publications spun it off into its own magazine. There were 59 issues of the series, until the final issue in October 1950. Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of
Adventures of the Movie-Colony’s Super-Sleuth —
A Bookful of Novelettes and Short Stories
By Robert Leslie Bellem
Murder On The Sound Stage
A detective sticks his neck out too far, trying to keep a pretty girl from, becoming a murderess!
Other Novelettes and Short Stories
A Comet Passes
A movie star can run away from fame — but not from death...
Bullet From Nowhere
She was a stand-in for murder... but it was more than a rehearsal!
Murder’s Messenger
She was too lovely to die, but that meant nothing to the killer.
Million Buck Snatch
It looked like another tong war — but not to Dan Turner.
The Horoscope Case
Her death was foretold by the stars — of Hollywood!
Cooked!
Old movie sets are an assassins paradise.
Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s.
Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective eBook
January 1942
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
"Boom! An explosion of pain roared through me, blasted me all the way to my shoestrings. Klieg lights made pinwheel patterns in my glims, an atomic bomb took my grey cells apart, and I plunged into a deep black well of unconsciousness. For me it was the end of a chapter." Those inimitable words from Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, came from the pen of famed author Robert Leslie Bellem. Turner was hard-boiled shamus who made Tinsel-town his stomping grounds. Crime amongst the glitter. The character made his debut in 1934 as a short story in Spicy Detective magazine. It continued there, one of the most popular recurring characters. In January 1942, publisher Culture Publications spun it off into its own magazine. There were 59 issues of the series, until the final issue in October 1950. Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of
Adventures of the Movie-Colony’s Super-Sleuth —
A Bookful of Novelettes and Short Stories
By Robert Leslie Bellem
Murder On The Sound Stage
A detective sticks his neck out too far, trying to keep a pretty girl from, becoming a murderess!
Other Novelettes and Short Stories
A Comet Passes
A movie star can run away from fame — but not from death...
Bullet From Nowhere
She was a stand-in for murder... but it was more than a rehearsal!
Murder’s Messenger
She was too lovely to die, but that meant nothing to the killer.
Million Buck Snatch
It looked like another tong war — but not to Dan Turner.
The Horoscope Case
Her death was foretold by the stars — of Hollywood!
Cooked!
Old movie sets are an assassins paradise.
Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s.
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Published May 28, 2022
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Robert Leslie Bellem
353 books12 followersRobert Leslie Bellem (July 19, 1902 - April 1, 1968) was an American pulp magazine writer, best known for his creation of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. Before becoming a writer he worked in Los Angeles as a newspaper reporter, radio announcer and film extra. After the demise of the pulps, Bellem switched to writing for television, including a number of scripts for The Lone Ranger, Adventures of Superman (1950s version), the original Perry Mason show, 77 Sunset Strip, and other shows.
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July 8, 2023
A good friend turned me on to this series, and it did everything that she said it would. The stories all came from the pulps in 1942 and they were sort of typical pulpish fare for the time. What separates these stories however is the language. Each and every story is written in a unique slang. Robert Leslie Bellem had his own vocabulary, women are frails, guns are roscoes and they bark "Ka-Chow Ka-Chow", money is geetus and damn near everything has it's own name and it flows so nice that the reader is able to follow. This volume contains a pulp novel of Dan Turner followed by six more short stories. I'm not going to tell you that each one is a gem and you'll be laughing your way as you read. But you will have a goofy smile throughout.
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