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Title: The Phantom Detective, Volume 1
Author: Gary Lovisi, Gene Moyers, Whit Howland, Robert Ricci
Narrator: David Gilmore
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-13-17
Publisher: RadioArchives.com
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:
The man in the mask.
High atop the Clarion Tower, a blinking red light begins to pulse signaling one of New York City's most illustrious, vigilante heroes, the Phantom Detective. In reality, he is Curtis Van Loan, a debonair playboy millionaire well known in the society columns of all the major dailies. What is hidden from the public is Van Loan's dedication to law and order. A decorated combat pilot during World War I, he is an expert fencer, ju-jitsu master, and speaks a dozen foreign tongues fluently.
Hidden in his Park Avenue penthouse is a secret closet containing clothing of all descriptions and sizes. Along the wall are weapons; automatic rifles, sub-machine guns. There is also a miniature lab along with an extensive make-up kit that allows him to don different faces as his mission requires. Forget the silly top hat featured on the old pulp covers, while in action the Phantom Detective wore a belted topcoat, a fedora, and black domino mask. He carried a .45 automatic and a hidden knife in his left sleeve.
This popular pulp icon returns now to once more battle villainy and crime in five new cases by Gene Moyers, Whit Howland, Robert Ricci, and two from Gary Lovisi. Each recaptures the fun, excitement, and thrills of this classic hero from the past - the Phantom Detective!

Members Reviews:
Halt! And Read!
Whit Howland develops perceptive [to some, tongue-in-cheek] characters in short-hand. Whether fleeting innocent bystanders, short-lived criminals, or good-guys, they exist without long introductions. As a fan, since his private-eye clown, Huey Dusk, I look forward to--and acquire--any publication in which his writing appears. The theme of "Politics of Personal Destruction" could not be more timely. His contribution to The Phantom Detective is that of a team player.

Pulp Thrills
This anthology actually contains five stories featuring The Phantom Detective: The Phantom Menace by Gary Lovisi; Circle of Despair by Gene Moyers; Campaign of Destruction by Whit Howland; Harbor Lights by Robert Ricci; and The Devilâs Minions by Gary Lovisi: The Book starts off with a great cover by Pat Carbajal, with some good illustrations inside. My only complaint is that the interior artwork should have featured scenes of action, not just people standing around, or a car parked in front of a building. The pulps gave us many pages of action scenes.
Gary Lovisi starts the book off with his tale, The Phantom Menace, where the mayor sets the police against the Phantom. But as we quickly learn, heâs getting his orders from someone else. Gary always gives us a good story.
Gene Moyersâ tale, Circle of Despair could have been in a pulp Phantom Detective issue, as far as Iâm concerned. Itâs my favorite yarn in this anthology because the author did his homework, and this even smells like pulp. There were more than the usual editing problems in it, but not enough to damage the story. Oh, the Phantom becomes the Shadow at one point, which should have been caught by an editor. Twenty years previous to this tale taking place a group of college friends belonged to an un-American group, and now someone is blackmailing them, and a reporter may have discovered it.