The Phantom Detective Options

[Glen Davis]

The Phantom Detective was the longest running of the heroic pulps, managing to out last G-8, Doc Savage, The Shadow and The Spider.

The character had a number of diferent writers, and with every change, the direction of the mag changed as well.

In the late '60s, a company published some paperback reprints, and I found one at a library booksale.

Called The Broadway Murders, it concerned the balckmail of 4 insurance company execs, summoned to witness a murder on Broadway on New Year's Eve.

The murder is carried out in a spectacular manner, and the Phantom Detective is put on the case.

There's a lot of twist and turns and derring do, but lacks the sort of panache that Doc and The Shadow had, and that may be why the PB's didn't last very long.

Still, I've never read a bad Phantom Detective novel yet.

[Ron Fortier]

The Phantom Detective is in our stable of public domain heroes we hope to do something with one of these days. Two years ago, when we
were with our first publisher, we had an anthology 80% ready to roll. Then when our association with them fell apart, so did many of these
projects including the Phantom Detective book. Too bad, as we'd collected a couple of very good stories. Hopefully we'll be able to revisit the character some time in the future. In the past few weeks Airship 27 Prod. has recruited lots of talented new pulp writers and we're gearing up half a dozen new titles to come you way in 2009. Looks to be a great pulp year.

[Glen Davis]

Got the 60s paperback Trail to Death.

It's pretty good. Someone is burying millionaires alive for ransom. the Phantom Detecitve gets on the case, following a criminal mastermind to his lair.

[Glen Davis]

Murder Under the Big Top is another 60s paperback.

There's a kill spree in town that is linked to a circus. Plenty of action in a setting you don't get any more.