Eight novelettes featuring Doctor Coffin, Hollywood's weirdest sleuth. He's a former character actor who fakes his own death; and, in his reborn guise, operates a string of funeral homes by day, and fights crime as Doctor Coffin by night. Reprinted from 1932-33 issues of the pulp magazine, Thrilling Detective. Includes an introduction by John Wooley, world's leading authority on Hollywood detectives.