I don't remember how I found out about Munseys. It's a website with links to thousands of out-of-print books, with over 1,500 pulp era novels. (RT @BoingBoing: This cool website offers more than 1500 pulp era novels as free e-books.
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These aren't necessarily detective stories, but my mother remembers mentioning detective novels as a literary genre in her Stanford 1955 English class, and was completely shut down. Now there is a whole class at the university devoted to the dective novel. She feels vindicated. You never know the jewels you may find in the past!