Reporter by day
Detective by night
Adventurer by blood!

Meet Wade Hammond, tough and smart, the man who tackles cases the police can't handle, bettling some of the most diabolical killers known to pulp fiction.  It takes brains as well as brawn to outsmart these insidious madmen, geniuses at twisting science itno terrifying tools of murder, and Wade never shrinks from the challenge.

For the first time, ten of the most spine-chilling Wade Hammond stories have been collected from the pages of classic 1930's pulps, Detective-Dragnet and Ten Detective Aces. In these vivid, atmospheric tales from the pen of Paul Chadwick, author of Secret Agent X and Captain Hazzard, the mood is mysterious, the situation perilous, and the suspense unrelenting.  Lock the doors, pull down the blinds, and enter the weird and wonderful world of Wade Hammond.

Reporter by day
Detective by night
Adventurer by blood....
....TAKES ON ANOTHER ROUND OF UNCANNY CASES!

Here in Volume 2, Wade Hammond, globe-trotting adventurer, accomplished newsman, and courageous amateur sleuth, pits his abilities against a freightening series of diabolical villains: The Sloth, The Man with the Grin, The Reaper, The Fiend, and many more.

From the vivid imagination of legendary fictioneer, Paul Chadwick, from the pages of the great 1930's pulps, Detective-Dragnet and Ten Detective Aces, are collected another ten of Wade Hammond's unforgettable adventures, the majority reprinted here for the first time since their original publication.

Reporter by day
Detective by night
Adventurer by blood....
....RETURNS TO BATTLE THE FORCES OF STRANGENESS!

Here in Volume 3 are ten more chilling tales from the pen of Paul Chadwick, from the great 1930's pulps, DETECTIVE-DRAGNET and TEN DETECTIVE ACES, the majority reprinted here for the first time since their original publication.

   The lid of the coffin was heavy.  Yet it shook, it yielded.  It might have been moved not so much by living muscle as by some blind but deathless will.
   The lid rose.  It slide aside.
   What appeared brought a contraction to the throat of the man watching.
   The movements of the thing in the long box were groping, broken, disarticulate, as if a clotted rag—a crushed and shapeless mass—were crawling into life.
   Out of this moil and much of what had once been a human being, a gaunt and bloody hand appeared at an inhuman angle, then a disheveled and misshapen head.
   It was a horror.

Doctor Coffin must rant as one of pulpdom's strangest denizens.  He'd been the famous actor, Del Manning, before faking his own death.  He returned as the mysterious Doctor Coffin, proprietor of a chain of Hollywood mortuaries by day, crimefighter by night.  From 1932-1933, Thrilling Detective featured him in a series of novelettes by Perley Poore Sheehan, veteran fictioneer and Hollywood screenwriter.  Collected here are eight of Doctor Coffin's exploits, including the first six.

See him transform the actors' mastery of disguise into a potent force for justice.  See him haunt the City of Stars.  See him turn his life into the greatest masquerade of all.

Features an introduction by John Wooley, worl'd foremost authority on Hollywood detectives.