Marty Quade
Created by Emile C. Tepperman
Billing himself as the "Ace of Private Detectives in New
York" and boasting of never having failed in a case, MARTY
QUADE figures he can get away with his exuberant fees. Mind
you, he does have a
reputation for keeping his mouth shut, and when he closes out
a case, usually with the aid of his trusty automatic, the case
stays closed. A tall, good-looking kinda guy, a "cool, assured
poker-face with its gray, unreadable eyes, his square shoulders
and his (bulging) chest," not to mention his "hair-trigger
brain", Marty sounds like quite a catch. But I'm not biting.
Supposedly a popular series character in the pulps, at least according to a blurb in a 1994 issue of Pulp Review, to me he seems like a pretty generic "tough private dick." Judging from the one story I've read, he has less character than the pulp he was printed on.
The author of the series, Emile C. Tepperman, is probably better
know for his series about the Suicide
Squad, which appeared in Ace G-Man Stories from 1939-1943.
This was a wild series about a trio of FBI agents who fought criminals
and Nazis. Plenty of action and violence in the 23 stories. I
like them much better than the
Marty Quade stories.
SHORT STORIES
Entry co-written by Kevin Burton Smith and Monte Herridge.