Somewhat over three years ago I discovered a web site named Munseys, which has tens of thousands of rare and hard-to-find titles, including over a thousand items in the Pulp Fiction category. Here, for your delectation, are my favourite 142 entries from the mystery / murder / detective short-story sub-genre thereto, from 1897 to 1956. The Pages column shows as estimate of the length of the item, in printed pages, based on a metric of 4,000 HTML bytes per page.
| Author | Title | Year | Pages |
| Anderson, George B. | The Case of The Squealing Duck | 1947 | 15 |
| Archibald, Joe | Time Will Tell | 1934 | 9 |
| Murder Witness | 1936 | 5 |
| Bird Cagey | 1938 | 10 |
| Scent to the Jug | 1939 | 10 |
| No Place Likes Homicide | 1940 | 11 |
| Short Order Crook | 1940 | 8 |
| Alibi Bye | 1941 | 9 |
| Dog Collared | 1941 | 10 |
| Shoe Treed | 1941 | 10 |
| A Pawn for the Chair | 1942 | 6 |
| The Knife Thrower | 1942 | 11 |
| Defective Bureau | 1944 | 10 |
| Meat Brawl | 1944 | 10 |
| Death Scoops A Columnist | 1945 | 10 |
| When a Body Meets a Body | 1947 | 8 |
| A Lam to the Slaughter | 1949 | 11 |
| Dying to See Willie | 1949 | 11 |
| Photo Finish For A Dame | | 10 |
| Skip Tracer Bullets | | 10 |
| Bayne, Sam | Hand Of Guilt | 1948 | 4 |
| Bellem, Robert Leslie | Sleeping Dogs | 1934 | 7 |
| Feature Snatch | 1943 | 10 |
| Homicide Surprise | 1946 | 9 |
| Benton, John L. | Gone With The Loot | 1944 | 4 |
| Lined With Death | 1944 | 8 |
| Bogart, William G. | Murder On Santa Claus Lane | 1943 | 8 |
| Braden, Benton | Guinea Pig Money | 1944 | 5 |
| Brister, Richard | A Stitch in Crime | 1947 | 5 |
| You'll Kill The People | | 8 |
| Burks, Arthur J. | The Bird Master | 1944 | 15 |
| Butler, H. C. | Murder Comes In Threes | 1946 | 10 |
| Death On Sunday | 1956 | 11 |
| Carter, Nick | Nick Carter at Headquarters | 1897 | 27 |
| Champion, D. L. | The Man Without a Head | 1949 | 15 |
| Clemens, Anthony | Blood On The Ice | 1934 | 5 |
| Cortez, Richard | Death Has no Double | 1952 | 8 |
| Cummings, Ray | A Shot in the Dark | 1936 | 6 |
| Murder in the Fog | 1937 | 7 |
| Daniels, Norman A. | Clues in the Dark | 1934 | 9 |
| Our Host -- the Ghost | 1943 | 8 |
| Murder Makes a Splash | 1945 | 5 |
| Man About to Die | 1948 | 8 |
| Davis, Frederick C. | Deadline at Midnight | 1946 | 4 |
| Davis, Norbert | The Rag-Tag Girl | 1936 | 10 |
| Something for the Sweeper | | 10 |
| DeRosso, H. A. | Hide-Away | 1954 | 7 |
| Echols, Allan K. | Mrs. Moncrief's Flats | 1945 | 6 |
| Edgar, Robert | The Doctor Prescribes Doom | 1941 | 9 |
| England, George Allan | Rough Toss | 1932 | 12 |
| Ernst, Paul | The Chair Cheater | 1937 | 3 |
| Field, Anthony | Dagger Doom | 1933 | 4 |
| Fisher, Steve | While the Earth Shook | 1935 | 4 |
| The Kid Faces Death | | 5 |
| Fleming-Roberts, G. T. | The Silenced Partner | 1933 | 4 |
| Blue Heat | 1934 | 6 |
| Snatch Bait | 1935 | 7 |
| Enemies of Uncle | | 8 |
| Frost, Clark | The Phantom Witness | 1941 | 3 |
| Fuller, Roger | Big Target | 1948 | 12 |
| Three Fingers Of Death | | 16 |
| Gardner, E. D. | Slender Clue | 1941 | 10 |
| Gruber, Frank | Three Dead Merchants | 1934 | 8 |
| Hilts, Leonard Finley | Murder Rides High | 1946 | 11 |
| Hoban, Leo | Time to Kill | 1945 | 9 |
| Hobart, Donald Bayne | Snatch Car | 1936 | 3 |
| One for the Book | 1941 | 3 |
| Hobart, Richard L. | Written in Blood | | 4 |
| Hogan, Robert J. | Killer's Highroad | | 7 |
| Hook, Joseph F. | The Eyes Have It | 1948 | 3 |
| Hopkins, Duane | Presidential Special | 1933 | 6 |
| Hopson, William | The Ice Man Came | 1953 | 10 |
| Johnson, Frank | Companions Of The Corpse | 1942 | 7 |
| Memphis Blues | 1944 | 4 |
| Kane, Frank | Suicide | 1945 | 5 |
| Kofoed, Jack | Baldy and the Strip-Tease Murder | 1946 | 8 |
| Lane, Grant | Wings For The Kid | | 9 |
| Larson, Don | Hell-Bent For the Morgue | 1941 | 8 |
| Lewis, Ken | Murder, She Says | 1945 | 9 |
| Llewell, Lloyd | Killer's Lunch Hour | 1940 | 6 |
| Mahoney, William | The Ruse In Cocaine Alley | 1935 | 3 |
| Manners, David X. | Fifty-Grand Funeral | 1942 | 10 |
| Martin, Robert | Tea Party Frame-Up | 1944 | 17 |
| Marvin, Tom | College For Crooks | | 9 |
| McCulley, Johnston | Railroad Detective | 1908 | 7 |
| The Spider Strain | 1919 | 37 |
| The Stolen Story | 1919 | 6 |
| Murder Limited | 1940 | 15 |
| New Year's Eve Test | 1946 | 8 |
| New Year's Duty | 1948 | 10 |
| New Year's Pardon | 1948 | 8 |
| Tragedy Trail | | 23 |
| Millard, Joseph J. | Kidnaped Evidence | 1942 | 11 |
| Montanye, C. S. | Shoulder Straps | 1944 | 7 |
| Money Music | 1946 | 7 |
| Crepe for Suzette | 1948 | 16 |
| Sue As In Suicide | 1949 | 7 |
| Frozen Stiff | | 9 |
| Moran, Neil | Blue Coat Gamble | 1947 | 3 |
| Mundy, Talbot | The Lady And The Lord | 1911 | 10 |
| Murphy, Edward William | Dispatch to Doom | 1948 | 9 |
| Myers, O. B. | Wanted | | 9 |
| O'Brien, David Wright | Dibble Dabbles In Death | 1945 | 11 |
| O'Brien, Michael | Murder on the Menu | 1944 | 5 |
| Oboler, Archie | The Murder Game | | 6 |
| Ormeaux, J.-J. des | Nitroglycerin News | | 12 |
| Page, Norvell | Clue of Courage | 1934 | 6 |
| Pangborn, Arden X. | Chinatown Challenge | 1937 | 7 |
| Plimmer, Dennis | Mr. Potter Finds a Clue | 1942 | 4 |
| Plunkett, Cyril | The Ogre from the Depths | 1938 | 6 |
| Price, E. Hoffmann | The Line Is Dead | 1951 | 21 |
| Punshon, E.R. | The Way Out | 1919 | 4 |
| Sale, Richard B. | The House of Kaa | 1934 | 10 |
| Sanders, Charles Wesley | But A Baby Doll--Good Night! | 1919 | 8 |
| Fares, Please! | 1919 | 7 |
| Toole o' the Trolley | 1919 | 6 |
| Saunders, Carl McK. | Off the Record | 1936 | 7 |
| Scanlon, C. K. M. | Check and Double Check | 1936 | 8 |
| Lincoln Letter | 1936 | 2 |
| Close To A Corpse | 1943 | 4 |
| Another Job for Homicide | 1946 | 4 |
| Schrader, Marie B. | Just Luck | 1909 | 8 |
| Scott, Major R. T. M. | His Last Shot | 1928 | 9 |
| Smith, Woodrow Wilson | Murder's Handyman | 1948 | 10 |
| Soutar, Andrew | The Story Without a Title | 1916 | 7 |
| Stoddard, Charles | Murder Music | 1941 | 7 |
| Sullivan, Charles J. | The Deadly Circle | 1933 | 2 |
| Tepperman, Emile C. | Considine Laughs | 1934 | 10 |
| Thiessen, V. E. | Six Tricks Make a Corpse | 1948 | 6 |
| Thursday, Thomas | Movie Stuff | 1948 | 9 |
| Murder With Folded Arms | 1955 | 10 |
| Thursday, Tom | Attention to Trifles | 1946 | 3 |
| Tooke, Alfred I. | The Gargoyle Speaks | 1933 | 2 |
| Treat, Lawrence | Death's Playgirl | 1940 | 9 |
| Treynor, Albert M. | In Thin Air | 1914 | 27 |
| Turner, Robert | Murder--Now Playing | | 9 |
| Wallace, Robert | The Hanging Shadow | 1944 | 6 |
| Williams, Lon | To Have And To Hold | 1956 | 10 |
| Worth, Rodney | Homemade Murder | 1947 | 7 |
| Yerxa, Leroy | O'Sheen's Photo Finish | 1943 | 2 |
| These Shoes Are Killing Me | 1943 | 10 |
| Zook, Nicholas | The Twisted Alibi | 1948 | 3 |
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