Before Perry Mason and Sam Spade ... before Charlie Chan ... before Sherlock Holmes ...
C. Auguste Dupin was popular culture's first crimesolving hero ... and Edgar Allen Poe created a new genre, the Detective Mystery, in 1841 ... Now the intrepid detective appears in his original appearance, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allen Poe ... and a new mystery, "The Beetle," by Ernest Dudley.
FEATURE STORY
- “The Beetle” by Ernest Dudley — C. Auguste Dupin returns in another baffling murder mystery!
- “Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allen Poe — C. Auguste Dupin embarks upon his first recorded adventure — and the mystery/detective genre is born!
CLASSIC PULP FICTION
- “The Follower” by Shelley Smith
- “Casualty” by John Burke
NEW PULP FICTION
- “Vaquero’s Vengeance” by Scott Forbes Crawford
- “The Adventure of Sherlock Hominid” by Teel James Glenn
- “Dead Air” by DG Critchley
- “Psycho Ants” by Keith Vile
PULP HISTORY / DEPARTMENTS
- Editorial by Audrey Parente
- “Pulp Fiction Dateline: Rest in Pulp” by Will Murray
- “Rough Edges” by James Reasoner
- Reviews: “Abue, the Dawn Maker” by Perley Poore Sheehan
