After twenty years of it, Eloise got tired of her coffin and returned, unannounced, to get her garnet ring. When she took her departure, she had a strange farewell party, and two new companions for the long, lonely journey home.
Dorothy Dunn (1913-1952) was a St. Louis schoolteacher who published over sixty short stories in such hardboiled pulps as Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Tales, and Thrilling Detective in the forties and fifties, with such juicy titles as “Senora Satan,” “Dead-End Darling” and “Morphine Alley.”Her writing’s marked by “strong characterization, offbeat situations, and evocative and distinctively gritty prose,
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Like many short pieces from Shock and similar "weird menace" pulp fiction magazines of the late 1940s, "Undertaker's Delight" is a suspenseful crime thriller by John Bender designed to shock the reader with a swift, dark narrative. he story centers around a classic noir/hardboiled premise involving crime, a morbid angle involving death or the mortuary business, and a fast-paced conflict that culminates in a sudden twist ending—a signature style of the magazine.
John Bender was a classic mid-century pulp writer active from the 1940s through the 1950s. He briefly served as an editor for the famous Dime Mystery Magazine in 1942 before focusing on his own writing. His work regularly appeared across popular detective, horror, and mystery publications of the era. Till Death Do Us Join is a short story by Theodore Sturgeon, first published in the July 1948 issue of Shock magazine. It appears in The Perfect Host: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 5, which covers his work from 1947 to 1949. The narrative centers on a young woman who falls in love with two men, Paul and Golly, who appear to be twin brothers but possess entirely different personalities. Paul is gentle and kind, while Golly is bad-tempered and destructive. The story explores the complex dynamics of this unusual romantic entanglement. Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo, 1918-1985) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the Golden Age of science fiction. He is best known for his prose style, emotional depth, and treatment of themes like love, loneliness, and what it means to be human. 
You Know What I Did? by Charles Beckman appeared in Manhunt May 1954. This is a gritty story that plays out in only two hours. Your kid's missing, and at first it's nothing to worry about. Then time passes, and your kid doesn't come home.
Charles Boeckman Jr. (1920 - 2015), who wrote under the pen name Charles Beckman Jr., was a prolific American pulp magazine author known for his work in suspense, mystery, and western genres. He broke into the pulps in 1945 with a story published in Detective Tales and continued writing for major publications like Star Western and Fifteen Western Tales until the format’s decline in the late 1950s. Beyond his pulp career, Boeckman was a professional jazz musician (clarinetist and saxophonist) who toured with bands for decades and authored the non-fiction book Cool, Hot and Blue. Several of his short stories were adapted for television, including an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and he remained active as an author well into his 90s, publishing new works and anthologies of his vintage stories. The Woman on the Bus is a short story written by R. Van Taylor, originally published in the May 1954 issue of the pulp crime fiction digest Manhunt. Mack didn't know why he was worried. The woman only wanted to stay until the next bus. Then she took out a gun... This story was famously adapted into a television episode for the anthology series The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse. The episode aired in 1954, directed by Charles S. Gould and starring Polly Bergen, Chick Chandler, and Ross Elliott. 
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Frank Bonham was born into a family of writers. His grandfather, a gold camp judge, and his mother were poets. He wrote his first two stories at the age of ten. He suffered from asthma, and while convalescing from an attack, he started to write short stories and submit them to pulp magazines. Phantom Detective Magazine accepted his fourteenth submission. In his first two years as a writer, he produced 100 stories and sold only seven. He worked for a couple of years as a ghost writer for Ed Earl Repp, but then moved on to become a freelance writer, turning out Western stories as he had done for Repp. Eventually, he moved to Hollywood and wrote television scripts and mystery stories. By the time he died in 1989, he had written some five hundred short stories, novellas, and novels. One of his best-known works was the award-winning Durango Street.  STORIES:
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A hard-boiled detective goes sleuthing in Hell's Kitchen.
The Chain is a short story by Hamilton Craigie It tells of one harrowing evening in the life of a private detective named Quarrier. Although a quarrier is a man who works in a quarry, you can also look at the name as a pun on the word quarry, as an animal that is hunted. In other words, a quarrier might be a man who hunts other men. 
A girl disappears, murder is suspected, but the only way to catch her killer is seduce him into a confession. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
Introduction of the Moon Man character featured in the pulp fiction detective stories authored by Fred C. Davis. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
 It's the hard streets of New York City during Prohibition with a police detective named Satan Hall on the job. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer 
An investigative reporter lands in the tropical land of Panama, and he might be on to the biggest story of his life. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer | www.MPPellicer.com
Some detectives survive by the gun, others survive by sheer luck.
"Two Biers for Buster" is a short story by William Campbell Gault that appeared in the March 1947 issue of Dime Detective. The story involves Red Barry, a private investigator who is hired by the widow of Buster Cowan to investigate her husband's past. Buster Cowan had stolen $50,000 before joining the military and died in a depot explosion. His widow faces trouble due to his past misdeeds, and Barry investigates to uncover the truth behind the theft and the circumstances of Cowan's death.  Pulp detective story featuring Peter Kane. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
A hard-boiled detective story by Merle Constiner featuring Dean Wardlow Rock. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
Frederick Nebel’s unforgettable character Jack Cardigan was one of the main reasons behind the success of the legendary "Dime Detective Magazine".
This story was originally published in two parts in Dime Detective magazine in June and July 1933. It is one of the 44 stories Nebel wrote about the character, which were highly influential in the pulp fiction genre during the 1930s.  Nightshade Diary podcast
Steve Grayce detective story, set during the Golden Age of Hollywood. The story involves a house detective in a fancy hotel who discovers famous jazz trumpeter King Leopardi dead in his bed in yellow pajamas. The PJs and the musician's name cause the detective to mutter "The king in yellow" as he remembers a book he once read inferred to be Robert W. Chamber's book, published in 1895.
Two hard-boiled detective stories about men who live by their wits, their fists and of course who pack heat just in case.
Homicide Hunch (A Dan Turner Story) by Robert Leslie Bellem. It was a screwball situation. Here was Dan, sitting at home and minding his own business, when the knock came at his front door. A short time later he was in a lavish apartment a few miles away, where he had been convoyed at the point of a gun, and a beautiful cutie he had never seen before was calling him “Dan, darling” and implying that they were old sweeties! Black by Paul Cain 
Jo Gar, the Island Detective is a Filipino P.I. who was the subject of a number of short stories written by pulp author Raoul Whitfield (sometimes under the pseudonym Ramon Decolta), beginning in February 1930, as part of his work for the pulp magazine Black Mask.
The story centers on the murder of a stage magician at a cockfight.  Oscar Sail is a hardboiled pulp fiction private detective created by author Lester Dent, best known as the creator of Doc Savage. Though Dent only wrote two stories for Sail, they remain legendary in pulp history for their grim, gritty noir tone and nautical background.
Oscar Sail is a tough, Miami-based private investigator. He owns a heavily modified, pitch-black Chesapeake "bugeye" boat named Sail, which features black sails and covers—a detail that mirrored Dent's own deep-sea sailing adventures. |
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