![]() Wood-pulp stock, lurid covers and geared for working-class men instead of something shiny aimed at middle-class women. Then dropped the moniker and made it Hollywood Detective. Turner moved on: in 1942 Bellem quit the Spicy stable and gave him a mag of his own: Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. That and ‘death’, ‘corpse’, killer’, and ‘bump-off’. Bellem launched Turner in Spicy Detective with ‘Murder By Proxy’ in 1934 and finished off with ‘Murder Wears Makeup’ sixteen years later. He had various series characters but the one the readers loved was Dan Turner. He wrote for something called Culture Publications who specialized in ‘spicy’ titles which, by mid-century standards meant sexy: Spicy Detective, Spicy Adventure, Spicy Western and Spicy Mystery. There were even a pair of novels, but what he did best was pulp. GLIMS SLANG PLUSHe wrote a million words a year, around 3000 stories in all, plus maybe 70 comic book scripts and when all that was through he moved into TV. Nelson, Jerome Severs Perry and Harcourt Weems. Court, Walt Bruce, John Grange, Nelson Kent, Kenneth A. He died in 1968 but so did Steinbeck and Upton Sinclair not to mention Kennedy and King, and who was going to notice? He was called Robert Leslie Bellem but if there was a cheque on offer he’d answer to Ellery Watson Calder, Harley L. Robert Leslie Bellem ‘Dead Heat’ Hollywood Detective (January 1944) The quail on the carpet was obviously passing to her reward and not from natural causes, either. A guy doesn’t have to be a doctor to recognize the symptoms of suffocation. I knew she was a goner the instant I hung the focus on her glazing glims, her bluish-purple mush, her protruding tongue. Her squirms reminded me of a gaffed eel on a hot rock. Then I froze as I lamped the gorgeous LaMarre cupcake writhing on the floor. I yanked the portal open, catapulted over the threshold. Before I could turn it I heard a gurgling screech from inside, followed by a heavy thud. I reached for the doorknob of Linda LaMarre’s dressing room. Mr Slang shines a light on another hero of slang, this time from the world of pulp fiction… ![]()
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