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A 1922 cover page, showing Gladys Frazin. The National Police Gazette, commonly referred to as simply the Police Gazette, is an American magazine founded in 1845.Under publisher Richard K. Fox, it became the forerunner of the men's lifestyle magazine, the illustrated sports weekly, the girlie/pin-up magazine, the celebrity gossip column, Guinness World Records-style competitions, and modern ...
A review of the December 23, 1947, episode in the trade publication Variety called Official Detective "a fairly presentable dramatization of the sort of murder and crime cases featured by 'true' detective mags." [6] The review described the show as "a run-of-the-mill production", with no features that might distinguish it from other detective ...
Desilu employed professional detectives as technical advisers to ensure that procedures depicted in the program accurately represented real-life police work. Scripts were adapted from articles published in Official Detective magazine, and officials at the magazine reviewed the scripts' content for accuracy.
The peak era for these was the era from roughly 1959 until 1986, when, due to the Meese Commission (a contribution by Park Dietz), and the end of a few of the publishers of detective (or "true crime") magazines, the main era of the bondage cover ended, though there were a few issues of Detective Dragnet in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and a ...
Cover of the August 1934 issue. Dime Mystery Magazine was an American pulp magazine published from 1932 to 1950 by Popular Publications.Titled Dime Mystery Book Magazine during its first nine months, it contained ordinary mystery stories, including a full-length novel in each issue, but it was competing with Detective Novels Magazine and Detective Classics, two established magazines from a ...
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True Detective Mysteries was founded in 1924 by publisher Bernarr Macfadden. [1] It initially focused on mystery fiction, with a mix of non-fiction crime stories. In the 1930s, Macfadden realized the popularity of the non-fiction pieces and gradually phased out fiction. As such, True Detective Mysteries became the first true crime magazine. [2]
A former Los Angeles police detective who killed a romantic rival and concealed the murder for more than two decades won’t be paroled, reversing an earlier decision that found she was suitable ...