Mafia 1 Remake Definitive Edition has 20 Dime Detective Pulp Magazine Locations. Finding all Pulp Magazines is required for the Lending Library trophy or achievement. This guide shows all their locations.
None of the Collectibles in Mafia 1 Remake / Remaster are missable. You can see which Collectibles you’ve found in the Collection Menu. Click on the Collectible Type and press 
(PS4) / 
(Xbox One) to sort them by their Chronological Order. This guide lists them in the order they are closest together and includes the chronological in-game number and name for each one, so you can easily find your missing one. All Collectibles are saved instantly. On chapter replays you can quit to the Main Menu without reaching the next Checkpoint and there’s no need to find them again if you die. Everything carries over into your next playthrough, nothing gets lost when starting a new game.
Dime Detectives are magazines scattered throughout the story. Whenever there’s a collectible nearby it will show up as a colored icon on the minimap.
Dime Detective Magazines are all located in the Main Story. For a list of all other Collectible Types, including which other types to look out for during the story in chronological order, refer to the Mafia 1 Remake Collectibles Guide.
1 – Dime Detective #14: Death Wears Red Heels
Chapter 3: Molotov Party / Objective: Pick up the Molotovs – in the room where you need to pick up the Molotovs (on table). This is also available in Free Roam!
2 – Dime Detective #12: Hayseed Homicide
Chapter 4: Ordinary Routine / Objective: Find a way into the Motel – Outside Clark’s Motel, in the south-east corner of it (on some wooden planks). This is your third stop during the money collection tour.
3 – Dime Detective #9: Death Blows out of Candles
Chapter 5: Fair Play / Objective: Follow Guard – after you’ve driven the Autodrome guard to the garage, search the stands across from the garage. It may say “Return to Objective” because you’re getting out of bounds, but there’s a 10 second timer so you have enough time. Alternatively, you can still pick it up after the race later in Chapter 5.
4 – Dime Detective #6: Happy Murder to You!
Chapter 7: Better Get Used to It / Objective: Find out where the gang hangs out – when you’re in Biff’s shop in Chinatown, this Dime Detective magazine can be found in the backroom you walk through when exiting the shop.
5 – Dime Detective #13: Mexican Slayride
Chapter 8: The Saint and the Sinner / Objective: Send a Message from Don Salieri – inside Hotel Corleone, on the ground floor, south-east corner. There’s a guy talking on the phone in this room, simply choke him out from behind.
6 – Dime Detective #19: The Lady’s From Hades
Chapter 8: The Saint and the Sinner / Objective: Escape over the rooftops – at the very end of the rooftop section of Hotel Corleone, after fighting your way past the cops on the rooftop. Easy to miss this one.
7 – Dime Detective #18: Live and Let Die
Chapter 8: The Saint and the Sinner / Objective: Kill Johnny – inside St. Michael’s Church, on the altar in the south-east corner.
8 – Dime Detective #11: Weather Fair Track Bloody
Chapter 9: A Trip to the Country / Objective: Find Sam – inside the big barn in the north-east of the area. You cannot enter this barn until you’ve investigated the truck and survived the enemy ambush.
9 – Dime Detective #20: Death Gives A Permanent Wave
Chapter 10: Omerta / Objective: Talk to Vincenzo – at the very start of the chapter, on a crate next to where you talk to Vincenzo (first objective marker in this chapter). This is also available in Free Roam!
10 – Dime Detective #8: You’re The Crime in my Coffee
Chapter 11: Visiting Rich People / Objective: Find the Prosecutor’s Safe – inside the big mansion, ground floor, north-eastern room (on book cart).
11 – Dime Detective #4: Post-Mortem at Pimlico
Chapter 12: Great Deal / Objective: Talk to Sam – in the guardhouse at the exit/entrance of the parking garage. This is easily missable, make sure to collect it before talking to Sam at his car.
12 – Dime Detective #1: Please Pass the Poison
Chapter 14: Happy Birthday / Objective: Find Sam – at St. Peter’s Port. When you arrive there will be a crowd of people standing at the port. On the left side of the crowd, you can find this collectible on a table (just to the left before talking to Sam).
13 – Dime Detective #7: You Can Die Any Day
Chapter 14: Happy Birthday / Objective: Find a vantage point – on board of the ship, on the top deck that’s only accessible during the “Find a vantage point” objective.
14 – Dime Detective #10: A Horse of Another Killer
Chapter 15: You Lucky … / Objective: Don’t let Sergio escape – inside the restaurant where the first gunfight of this chapter takes place.
15 – Dime Detective #17: Tin-Pan Alibi
Chapter 16: Crème de la Crème / Objective: Don’t let Morello escape – at the airport, in the big hangar where a main mission marker is (before holding to push open a gate inside the hangar).
16 – Dime Detective #5: The Corpse That Wasn’t There
Chapter 17: Election Campaign / Objective: Follow the hobo sign to the Guard Tower – inside the Prison. When you enter the Prison Cell Block, go to the third floor and pull the lever in the corner. This will open the cells. In one of the cells in the west you will find this collectible.
17 – Dime Detective #15: Sealed with a Kris
Chapter 17: Election Campaign / Objective: Find the Guard Tower – on the top floor of the prison, in the library. Grab this BEFORE going through the Guard Tower door.
18 – Dime Detective #16: Feather Your Coffin
Chapter 18: Just For Relaxation / Objective: Search for the cigar shipment – after sneaking through the yard in the Federal Customs Impound, you will enter a building where a bunch of enemies are walking around. On the upper floor you can find this magazine in one of the offices.
19 – Dime Detective #2: Let The Skeletons Rattle
Chapter 19: Moonlighting / Objective: Get the manager – inside the bank building, on the top floor, in a side office (on desk).
20 – Dime Detective #3: Watch Me Kill You!
Chapter 20: The Death of Art / Objective: Meet Paulie at his apartment – inside your house at the start of the chapter, in living room.
That’s all of the Dime Detective Pulp Magazines in Mafia 1 Remake: Definitive Edition for PS4, Xbox One, PC.
Remember, in order to get the Lending Library trophy or achievement, you need all 4 types of Pulp Magazines and not just this one (Dime Detectives, Black Masks, Super Science Stories, Terror Tales).
For all other Mafia 1 Collectibles refer to the Guides below:
- Dime Detectives (Pulp Magazines)
- Black Masks (Pulp Magazines)
- Super Science Stories (Pulp Magazines)
- Terror Tales (Pulp Magazines)
- Gangsters Monthly Comics
- Cigarette Cards
- Post Cards
- Hidden Cars
- Mystery Foxes
Number 11 Dime detective is easier to get if you grab it when you first get to the parking garage
#3 on this quide can also be acquired after doing the race when you celebrate winning the race. You need too find Paulie cause he got drunk. Just walk too the stand near the mechanic who adjusted the race car.
Is the Dime Detective #5 bugged? I remember finding it but couldn’t get to it because of the locked door (I hadn’t find the lever that opens the cells on my 1st playthrough). So I left it for later, for when I was gonna play it again with the guide. But now on my 2nd play it has dissapeared!! Anyone?