Magic Detectives, Occult Detectives

Magician Detectives
The Murder of the Marionette (Diamondstone)
The Pulp Super-Fan | Diamondstone: Magician-Sleuth

The Twisted Bullet

Blackstone, the Magic Detective - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Occult Detectives

Semi-Dual
The House of Invisible Bondage by J.U. Giesy
c/f Occult Detectives, pt. 20 – Semi Dual

Simon Iff
Simon Iff Stories

The Ghost Breaker: A Melodramatic Farce in Four Acts by Dickey and Goddard
The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain by Lytton

Strange Detective
Clue Of Courage
The Devil's Crypt

Magic Detectives

The Phantom Magician in the Adventures of Patsy
Don Markstein's Toonopedia: The Adventures of Patsy
Adventures of Patsy
Hero Goggles - All things comics and maybe a little more!: Understanding Comics and the Phantom Magician
A Sample Comic.

Mandrake
Mandrake the Magician by Fred Fredericks -- Created by Lee Falk - About | Comics | Comics Kingdom - 
Mandrake The Magician
Comic Strips, Editorial Cartoons, Sunday Funnies, Jokes

Dr. Mystic - Public Domain Super Heroes

General
Main/Magician Detective - Television Tropes & Idioms

The Bat by Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rinehart; Stephen Vincent Benet (1926)

Source.
c/f The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Some context.

From the Broadway production.

First film adaption.

(The 1930 sound film remake of this same film "The Bat Whispers" Bob Kane identified as partially inspiring Batman).

First Mystery and Detective Stories (in English)

Source. Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories by Alarcón et al. at Project Gutenberg.

Henri René Albert Guy De Maupassant (1850-93)
The Necklace
The Man with the Pale Eyes
An Uncomfortable Bed
Ghosts
Fear
The Confession
The Horla

Pierre Mille
The Miracle of Zobéid

Villiers De L'isle Adam
The Torture by Hope

Erckmann-Chatrian (1822-99)—(1826-90)
The Owl's Ear
The Invisible Eye
The Waters of Death

Honore De Balzac (1799-1850)
Melmoth Reconciled
The Conscript

Jean Francois Marie Arouet De Voltaire (1694-1778)
Zadig the Babylonian

Pedro De Alarçon
The Nail

Luigi Capuana (1839-00)
The Deposition

Lucius Apuleius (Second Century)
The Adventure of the Three Robbers

Pliny, The Younger (First Century)
Letter to Sura

Haldane of the Secret Service - Houdini (1922)

Produced by, directed by and starring Houdini, a film featuring the stage magician as a crime-fighting, detective magician, attempting to track down the vicious criminal gang responsible for his government agent father's death while also saving the girl he loves.

Bat Wing by Sax Rohmer (1921)

Source.

Penny Dreadfuls: Proto-Hardboiled, Detective, Adventure and Thriller Dreadfuls

Adventure Dreadfuls

• Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood, by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham
• California Joe, the Mysterious Plainsman, by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham
• Jesse James, the Outlaw, by W. B. Lawson
• Deadwood Dick's Doom; or, Calamity Jane's Last Adventure

Crime and Detective Dreadfuls
The Mysteries of London

• The Mysteries of London - George William MacArthur Reynolds

The Mysteries of Paris

• The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 - Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857
• The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 - Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857
• The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 - Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857
• The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 - Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857
• The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 - Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857
• The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 - Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857

Old Sleuth

• Old Sleuth,  Cad Metti, the Female Detective Strategist: or, Dudie Dunne Again in the Field 
• Old Sleuth, A Desperate Chance: or, The Wizard Tramp's Revelation (1897) 
• Old Sleuth, The "Dock Rats" of New York: or, The Smuggler Band's Last Stand
• Old Sleuth, Oscar the Detective: or, Dudie Dunne, the Exquisite Detective
• Old Sleuth, A Successful Shadow: or, A Detective's Successful Quest (1897)
• Old Sleuth, Two Wonderful Detectives: or, Jack and Gil's Marvelous Skill (c1898) 
• Old Sleuth, Wonder Jack, the Detective: or, The Witch of Manhattan (New York: J. S. Ogilvie Pub. Co., c1894) 

Thriller Dreadfuls

• Fred Fearnot's Revenge, or Defeating a Congressman, by Hal Standish
• Fred Fearnot's Day, or The Great Reunion at Avon, by Hal Standish
• Nick Carter, Detective: The Solution of a Remarkable Case, by a celebrated author
• The Great Spy System, or, Nick Carter's Promise to the President, by a celebrated author

Penny Dreadfuls: Occult and Spooky Dreadfuls

• Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest N
• Spring Heeled Jack by Anonymous N
• The String of Pearls - The Original Penny Dreadful Featuring Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street N

Astonishing Fan Fiction Series I: Ghosts (X-Files fanfic, 1997)

Source.

Thanks, Cosplay.

The Pulp Magazines Project 1896-1946 Mystery

Source. Click on images to view scans of the magazines.

The Black Mask | Established in 1920 | Pro-Distributors | Edited by Joseph T. Shaw (1926-1936) | Total Issues: 340.




Detective Story Magazine | Established in 1915 | Street & Smith | Edited by Frank E. Blackwell | Total Issues: 1057.





Dime Mystery Magazine | Established in 1932 | Popular | Edited by Rogers Terrill | Total Issues: 159.

Comic Books and Pulp Publishers | Est. in 1940-52 | Various | Ed. by Various | Total Issues: Continuing.

The Pre-Tabloid Art of 19th-Century Crime

Source.

Thanks Allison Meier via Hyperallergic

I Fell for a Commie (1953 Love Secrets Comic)

In full.

Cure - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1997)

Article on Cure on strictly film school
An Interview with Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2003)
Cure: Confusion and Sophistication

List of Most (or Least) Compelling Nancy Drew Titles

The Mystery at Lilac Inn
The Clue of the Tapping Heels
The Mystery at the Ski Jump
The Haunted Showboat
The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes
The Mystery of the 99 Steps
The Clue in the Crossword Cipher
The Double Jinx Mystery
The Kachina Doll Mystery
The Case of the Photo Finish
The Haunting of Horse Island
The Search for the Silver Persian
The Case of the Twin Teddy Bears
Mystery on the Menu
The Case of the Floating Crime
The Message in the Haunted Mansion
The Case of the Dangerous Solution
The Baby-Sitter Burglaries
The Riddle of the Ruby Gazelle
The Door-to-Door Deception
The Mystery in Tornado Alley
Werewolf in a Winter Wonderland
The Case of the Creative Crime

Etexts of old pulp magazines

Searchable by Author and magazine. Extensive.

Police (1916)

Blair of The Mounties (1938) - Old Time Radio

Source.

"Blair of the Mounties is the story of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police -- a fictional series based on the work of the Northwest Mounted Police before the World War I. It was a fifteen minute weekly serial heard every Monday for 36 weeks beginning January 31st, 1938 and running through the 3rd of October of 1938. It may have been on the air as early as 1935, although there’s no actual proof of this.

Little is known of the series other than it followed the exploits of Sgt. Blair of the Northwest Mounted Police. and probably was the inspiration for Trendell, Campbell and Muir's Challenge of the Yukon.

The series was written by Colonel Rhys Davies, who also played the Colonel Blair in the series. Jack Abbot played the Constable.

Jack French, one of OTR’s best researchers says this about the series: “Blair is not restricted to Canada, as other Mounties, as we find him, in a few cases, in Great Britain, solving cases. Overall the series is amateurishly written, with the actor playing Blair coming accros as a bit stuffy.”

Eerie Magazine Covers #1-#149

Source.

Christmas Murder!

Pulp Magazine and Paperback Covers on Filkr

Pulp magazines
Old Paperbacks
Pulp

The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

The Alchemist (1908) Ashes (with C. M. Eddy, Jr.; 1923) At the Mountains of Madness (February–22 March 1931) Azathoth (June 1922) The Battle that Ended the Century (with R. H. Barlow; June 1934) The Beast in the Cave (21 April 1905) Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919) The Book (late 1933?) The Call of Cthulhu (Summer 1926) The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (January–1 March 1927) The Cats of Ulthar (15 June 1920) Celephaïs (early November 1920) The Challenge from Beyond (with C. L. Moore; A. Merritt; Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long; August 1935) Collapsing Cosmoses (with R. H. Barlow; June 1935) The Colour Out of Space (March 1927) Cool Air (March 1926) The Crawling Chaos (with Winifred V. Jackson; 1920/21) The Curse of Yig (with Zealia Bishop; 1928) Dagon (July 1917) Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (with C. M. Eddy, Jr.; 1924?) The Descendant (1926?) The Diary of Alonzo Typer (with William Lumley; October 1935) The Disinterment (with Duane W. Rimel; September 1935) The Doom That Came to Sarnath (3 December 1919) The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (Autumn? 1926–22 January 1927) The Dreams in the Witch House (January–28 February 1932) The Dunwich Horror (Summer 1928) The Electric Executioner (with Adolphe de Castro; 1929?) The Evil Clergyman (October 1933) Ex Oblivione (1920/21) Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920) The Festival (October 1923) From Beyond (16 November 1920) The Ghost-Eater (with C. M. Eddy, Jr.; 1923) The Green Meadow (with Winifred V. Jackson; 1918/19) The Haunted House (1898/1902; nonextant) The Haunter of the Dark (November 1935) He (11 August 1925) Herbert West – Reanimator (September 1921–mid 1922) History of the Necronomicon (1927) The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast (with R. H. Barlow; 1933) The Horror at Martin’s Beach (with Sonia H. Greene; June 1922) The Horror at Red Hook (1–2 August 1925) The Horror in the Burying-Ground (with Hazel Heald; 1933/35) The Horror in the Museum (with Hazel Heald; October 1932) The Hound (September 1922) Hypnos (March 1922) Ibid (1928?) In the Vault (18 September 1925) In the Walls of Eryx (with Kenneth Sterling; January 1936) John, the Detective (1898/1902; nonextant) The Last Test (with Adolphe de Castro; 1927) Life and Death (1920?; lost) The Little Glass Bottle (1897) The Loved Dead (with C. M. Eddy, Jr.; 1923) The Lurking Fear (November 1922)

The Man of Stone (with Hazel Heald; 1932) Medusa’s Coil (with Zealia Bishop; May 1930) Memory (1919) The Moon-Bog (March 1921) The Mound (with Zealia Bishop; December 1929–early 1930) The Music of Erich Zann (December 1921) The Mysterious Ship (1902) The Mystery of the Grave-Yard (1898) The Mystery of Murdon Grange (1918; nonextant) The Nameless City (January 1921) The Night Ocean (with R. H. Barlow; Autumn? 1936) The Noble Eavesdropper (1897?; nonextant) Nyarlathotep (early December 1920) Old Bugs (1919) The Other Gods (14 August 1921) Out of the Aeons (with Hazel Heald; 1933) The Outsider (1921) Pickman’s Model (1926) The Picture (1907; nonextant) The Picture in the House (12 December 1920) Poetry and the Gods (with Anna Helen Crofts; 1920) Polaris (May? 1918) The Quest of Iranon (28 February 1921) The Rats in the Walls (August–September 1923) A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1917) The Secret of the Grave (1898/1902; nonextant) The Secret Cave or John Lees Adventure (1898) The Shadow Out of Time (November 1934–March 1935) The Shadow Over Innsmouth (November?–3 December 1931) Discarded Draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931) The Shunned House (16–19 October 1924) The Silver Key (1926) The Slaying of the Monster (with R. H. Barlow; 1933) The Statement of Randolph Carter (December 1919) The Strange High House in the Mist (9 November 1926) The Street (1920?) Sweet Ermengarde (1917) The Temple (1920) The Terrible Old Man (28 January 1920) The Thing in the Moonlight (spurious) The Thing on the Doorstep (21–24 August 1933) Through the Gates of the Silver Key (with E. Hoffmann Price; October 1932–April 1933) “Till A’ the Seas” (with R. H. Barlow; January 1935) The Tomb (June 1917) The Transition of Juan Romero (16 September 1919) The Trap (with Henry S. Whitehead; late 1931) The Tree (1920) The Tree on the Hill (with Duane W. Rimel; May 1934) Two Black Bottles (with Wilfred Blanch Talman; July–October 1926) Under the Pyramids (with Harry Houdini; February–March 1924) The Unnamable (September 1923) The Very Old Folk (2 November 1927) What the Moon Brings (5 June 1922) The Whisperer in Darkness (24 February–26 September 1930) The White Ship (November 1919) Winged Death (with Hazel Heald; 1933

c/f The myth maker by Michel Houellebecq