Kelter crime novel

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Kelter-Kriminal-Roman was a series of magazines with detective novels from Martin Kelter Verlag . It ran from 1953 to 1963. A total of 338 issues appeared.

history

This series changed its name several times. The following titles were used (the first and last number in brackets): Kelter-Kriminal-Roman (1-294), Der Aktuell Kriminal Roman (295-318) and Der Jetzt Krimi (319-338).

In addition to several sub-series, ninety-one monographic texts appeared within the Kelter crime novel.

The series Kelter-Krimi is not directly related to this series.

Sub-series

Inspector John Dean and Toby Gin started as a sub-series in this series, were later outsourced and then appeared as a stand-alone series.

Toby Gin started after 27 issues and ended there with number 100. Inspector John Dean already received his own series with issue 11 and was reintegrated into the general series after volume 28, where four more novels were published. Another novels with John Dean and six with crime reporter Toby Gin appeared within Kelter-Krimi.

A total of 72 booklets dealt with cases involving Inspector Percy Brook , 20 of which were reprinted in a separate series in 1984.

Further sub-series were G. Man Jack Kelly (25 booklets), Hello Amboss (43 booklets), Hanns Hart (5 booklets), John Tiger (16 booklets), Dave Lund (4 booklets) and Lucky Hello (9 booklets).

Hello Amboss and Toby Gin also appeared as a new edition within Kelter Thriller .

Science fiction

Eleven magazines were not normal thrillers, but rather had a fantastic, utopian content. The appearance of interspersed fantasy dragged on over the entire period of publication. The first corresponding novel was published with number 36 and the last shortly before the end of the series with volume 333.

literature

  • Heinz J. Galle: Folk books and book novels. Forays into popular entertainment literature for over 100 years. Volume 1: The boom after 1945. From Billy Jenkins to Perry Rhodan (= DvR series of publications. ). Revised new edition, 1st edition. von Reeken, Lüneburg 2005, ISBN 3-8334-3232-2 .
  • General German novel price catalog. Vol. 9, 2007, ZDB -ID 382888-8 .