

An edition of The Defective Detective in the Pulps (1983)
By Gary Hoppenstand,Ray B. Browne
Publish Date
1983
Publisher
Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Language
eng
Pages
119
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.