Dime Detective Magazine #6 (Facsimile Edition)
Dime Detective magazine was the flagship detective pulp in the Popular Publications stable, running for almost 300 issues over twenty years. The April 1932 issue contains stories by Frederick Nebel, Carroll John Daly, John Lawrence, and J. Allan Dunn, and includes appearances by series characters such as Cardigan and Vee “Crime Machine” Brown.
The Dime Detective Library: Series 6 (Six Book Set)
This specially-priced set includes all six books in Series 6 of The Dime Detective Library:
- The Complete Cases of the Acme Indemnity Op, Volume 1 by Jan Dana writing as John Lawrence, introduction by John Wooley
- The Complete Cases of Mike Blair by Hank Searls
- The Complete Cases of Bill Brent, Volume 2 by Frederick C. Davis
- The Complete Cases of Val Easton by T.T. Flynn
- The Complete Cases of John Smith, Volume 1 by Wyatt Blassingame
- The Complete Cases of Uncle Tubby by Ray Cummings
Considered the greatest of all detective pulps to only Black Mask, Dime Detective was the home to dozens of classic, quirky series characters, all with an offbeat twist. Get all of Series 6 at a discount!
The Complete Cases of the Acme Indemnity Op, Volume 1 (The Dime Detective Library)
He was a hardboiled lone-wolf investigator whose real name was never revealed. And he was a true company man, identified only by the name of the business he worked for, with an “Op” tagged at the end. His stories were tough and violent, and while they sometimes revealed him to be indecorous or not particularly heroic, he laid them all out in a straightforward, first-person style. He was, however, not the Continental Op.
Credited as the author was the mysterious “Jan Dana,” in reality John Lawrence: a former stockbroker and author of another long-running Dime Detective series, the Marquis of Broadway. Volume 1 collects the first six stories in the series.
Includes an all-new introduction by John Wooley.
The Dime Detective Library: Series 3 (Six Book Set)
by John K. Butler, D.L. Champion, Merle Constiner, Frederick C. Davis, John Lawrence, and Fred MacIsaac
This specially-priced set includes all six books in Series 3 of The Dime Detective Library:
- The Complete Cases of Bill Brent, Volume 1 by Frederick C. Davis
- The Complete Cases of The Dean, Volume 1 by Merle Constiner
- The Complete Cases of Mariano Mercado, Volume 1 by D.L. Champion
- The Complete Cases of the Marquis of Broadway, Volume 2 by John Lawrence
- The Complete Cases of The Rambler, Volume 2 by Fred MacIsaac
- The Complete Cases of Steve Midnight, Volume 1 by John K. Butler, introduction by John Wooley
Considered the greatest of all detective pulps to only Black Mask, Dime Detective was the home to dozens of classic, quirky series characters, all with an offbeat twist. Get all of Series 3 at a big discount!
The Complete Cases of the Marquis of Broadway, Volume 2 (The Dime Detective Library)
NYPD Lieutenant Martin Marquis and the officers of his hand-picked Broadway Squad are the toughest, most vicious cops in pulp-fiction history. “The Marquis,” as he is called along Manhattan’s Main Stem, is trim and dapper, with a weathered face and deep-set blue eyes. In marked contrast to the average plainclothes officer, he dresses like one of New York’s “swells,” generally showing up at crime scenes clad in smartly angled derby hat, black silk scarf, black kid gloves and shoes, dark suit, and ankle-length black Chesterfield coat. His appearance notwithstanding, the Marquis is practically a gangster with a badge, only marginally less corrupt than the underworld figures he pursues. Members of the Broadway Squad share his casual morality and frequently abuse their authority not only for financial gain but personal satisfaction as well.
The Dime Detective Library: Series 1 (Seven Book Set)
by D.L. Champion, Carroll John Daly, Frederick C. Davis, T.T. Flynn, John Lawrence, and Fred MacIsaac
This specially-priced set includes all seven books in Series 1 of The Dime Detective Library:
- The Complete Cases of Cass Blue, Volume 1 by John Lawrence, introduction by Ed Hulse
- The Complete Cases of Inspector Allhoff, Volume 1 by D.L. Champion, introduction by Ed Hulse
- The Complete Cases of Keyhole Kerry, Volume 1 by Frederick C. Davis, introduction by Ed Hulse
- The Complete Cases of Mr. Maddox, Volume 1 by T.T. Flynn, introduction by Ed Hulse
- The Complete Cases of the Marquis of Broadway, Volume 1 by John Lawrence, introduction by Ed Hulse
- The Complete Cases of The Rambler, Volume 1 by Fred MacIsaac, introduction by Ed Hulse
- The Complete Cases of Vee Brown, Volume 1 by Carroll John Daly, introduction by Ed Hulse
Get all of Series 1 at a big discount!
The Complete Cases of the Marquis of Broadway, Volume 1 (The Dime Detective Library)
One of the most unusual collection of stories published in any crime pulp, the Marquis of Broadway series was written by John Lawrence, a former stockbroker whose literary career, while relatively brief, deserves more recognition than it has received to date. Most of Lawrence’s best yarns, including those featuring the Marquis and his Broadway Squad, first appeared in the pages of Dime Detective, the prestigious crime pulp second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre.
The Complete Cases of Cass Blue, Volume 1 (The Dime Detective Library)
The Cass Blue yarns are related in the first person by stylish pulp writer John Lawrence, who guides his protagonist through a maze of conventional plots and countless gunfights. What the series lacks in polish and innovation, it makes up for with vigorous action and the tough-as-nails attitude that gave Dime Detective the distinctive flavor that made it the most important crime pulp excepting the legendary Black Mask.
Dime Detective Companion
Dime Detective Magazine was second only to Black Mask as the dean of detective/P.I./hard-boiled pulp magazines, and was the home of Carroll John Daly, Frederick Nebel, John D. MacDonald, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many other top-notch scribes. This book indexes all 274 issues of Dime Detective, contains several articles on the series and its writers, and as a bonus, the fifth anniversary round-robin story from the November 1936 issue, “The Tongueless Men,” by William E. Barrett, Carroll John Daly, Frederick C. Davis, T.T. Flynn, and John Lawrence.