“For a long time I wished for a magazine that would present true crime cases in a straightforward, exciting way—without sensationlism and trick photography. When True Crime Detective came along I had my wish!”
–Ralph Bellamy, noted stage and screen actor

True Crime Detective, The Magazine of True Crime Cases Vol. 1 No. 4 October 1951
Contents
Dr. Richard H. Hoffmann as told to Will Oursler “The Untold Story of Martha”
Walter Winchell “Behind Lepke’s Surrender”
Henry Jordan “Paris Dead End”
Rupert Hughes “Murder Solves a Murder”
Ray Brennan “Somebody Knows”
Edward D. Radin “Locked-Room Rendeszvous”
Manly Wade Wellman “Bender’s Orchard”
Courtney Riley Cooper “Spawn of Shoebox Annie”
W.T. Brannon “Mr. Con Man”
John Bartlow Martin “The Ring and the Conscience”

Publisher: Lawrence E. Spivak
Editor: Edward D. Radin
Managing Editor: Robert P. Mills
General Manager: Joseph W. Ferman
Art Director: George Salter
5.5” x 7.75” 128 pages 35¢