This is the May 7, 1921 weekly issue of Detective Story Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 2. Detective Story Magazine is credited as the first pulp magazine devoted to detective fiction. It ran from 1915 to 1949 and produced 1057 issues featuring short stories and serialized fiction, along with short nonfiction features and regular columns. It included stories by Sax Rohmer, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and (as in this issue) Edgar Wallace.
Contents of this Issue:
- Classified Advertising
- Blind Men (Edgar Wallace)
- State Police
- Ensnared by Truth (Charles Rideaux)
- Connecting Links (Scott Campbell)
- When Bud Woke Up (Christopher B. Booth)
- Notorious Bandit Killed
- World-Famous Robberies (John Laurence)
- Going Down (Frederick Ames Coates)
- Rose of Destiny (Bayard Blackford)
- Guarding Prisoners in Uraguay
- Taxi No. 13 (John Dent Kirkwood)
- The Feudist’s Fear (Grover Kidwell)
- Alleged Swindler of Emigrants is Arrested
- Narcotics Hidden in Table
- Headquarters Chat
- Railroad Safety Gates Used in Holdup
- What Handwriting Reveals
- Expert Legal Advice (Lucile Pugh)
- The How, When, and Where of Success (Rutherford Scott)
- Under the Lamp (Henry A. Keller)
- Missing Department
Publisher: Street and Smith Corporation, 1921
Editor: Frank E. Blackwell
Issue: Volume 40: Number 2; May 7, 1921
Pages: 160
Size: 6-3/4″ x 9-3/4″
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