Speed Detective - Episode 78

Will Falk’s first story in Speed Detective Magazine be his last? Will he find the kidnapped girl before it’s too late? Who killed the chauffeur? Listen to find out!

Speed Detective, episode 78 of This Gun in My Hand, the final episode of season six, was hastened by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What magazine am I most often associated with? The one that fits into the grip of This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Anachronism! Speed Detective was not published with that title in 1939, the period when This Gun in My Hand is set. Spicy Detective Stories was published from 1934-1942. Pushback from the public got a little too spicy, so they changed the title to Speed Detective beginning with the January 1943 issue. (Also Speed Mystery, Speed Western, and others in the formerly “Spicy” line.)
https://www.pulpmags.org/contexts/essays/history-of-girlie-pulps.html
https://donherron.com/sinister-cinema-holy-spicy-detective-batman/

2. Text of the first commercial comes from a real advertisement for Gulf Hamstery that appeared in magazines and comics in the late 1940s. Please don’t try sending letters to Parabellum City though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Hamstery

3. Look up “police gangs LAPD.” Truth is stranger than my fiction.

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: public domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#

Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html

Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/

Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/

Sound Effect Title: Wood Break.boaay
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/BOAAY/sounds/520720/

Sound Effect Title: Kicking/Forcing/Breaking Wooden Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/160213/

Sound Effect Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#

Sound Effect Title: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/

Sound Effect Title: warpedvideo.wav
By AMPUL
License: Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0
https://freesound.org/people/AMPUL/sounds/29720/

Sound Effect Title: chugging diesel (bus) and rev.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/CraftyIndividual/sounds/418436/

Sound Effect Title: diesel truck jake brake and air brake.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/nuncaconoci/sounds/555266/

Sound Effect Title: Bus Closing Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/am7/sounds/520753/

Music from second commercial:
Music Title: Windy Winds - Intro A
Jay Man - OurMusicBox
https://www.our-music-box.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ourmusicbox/
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Sound Effect Title: Flock Seagulls
Recorded by Daniel Simion
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/2193-Flock-Seagulls.html

Sound Effect Title: Lake Waves 1.wav
By Benboncan
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/67883/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain cover from Speed Detective, Volume 3, Number 4 (December 1944). Art possibly by Richard Lillis.