The Defective Detective in the Pulps

By Ray B. Browne, Gary Hoppenstand

Subjects: American Detective and mystery stories, Great Depression

Description: The world of the defective detective was a strange one. Continuing the motif of the mythological hero, this unique detective type emerged in the 1930s in a very imperfect and threatened society. The stories reprinted in this volume reveal just how widely the genre ranged during the Depression.