ISBN10: 1886937451, ISBN13: 9781886937451, [publisher: Brand: Adventure House] Softcover First Edition <b>Penzler Pick, November 2000:</b> I'm a sucker for good reference books about mystery fiction and this one is pretty good, if extremely limited to those who remember the great era of pulp magazines and collect them. Pulps (in case you are really young and don't know about them) were very inexpensive magazines that flourished during the period shortly before WWI to just after WWII. They were filled with fiction produced at a prodigious pace by writers who worked for a penny a word--or two cents if they established a reputation and a following. Beginning with general interest pulps, such as <i>All-Story</i> and <i>Popular</i>, the enormous success of these inexpensive treasure troves of fiction quickly brought spinoffs that were more narrowly focused. Fans of romance fiction could go to the newsstand for a copy of <i>Love Adventures</i>, <i>Love Book Magazine</i>,<i>Love Fiction Monthly</i>, <i>Love Romances</i>, <i>Love Story Magazine</i>, <i>Love Short Stories</i>, and dozens of others. Readers who wanted westerns had the same huge range, as did those who preferred science fiction, fantasy, ...

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