Recommended reading - The Dime Detectives

 

The Dime Detectives

The Dime Detectives
by Ron Goulart.
 
Published by Mysterious Press.
Published 1988.
First Edition.
Hardcover.
 
ISBN-10: 0892961910
ISBN-13: 978-0892961917
 
Description:
A comprehensive history of the detective fiction pulps.

Traces the history of detective fiction pulp magazines from their origins in the nineteenth-century dime novels to their heyday in the 1920s and 1930s, profiling many pulp writers who went on to achieve greater fame.