Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
Mystery and thrills... times ten! That was Ten Detective Aces. Each magazine featured ten stories of action and adventure. The magazine got off to a shaky start in November 1928, under the title of The Dragnet Magazine. Ace Magazines published this pulp containing stories of gangsters and organized crime, but it failed to click with readers. In April 1930 the magazine was retitled to Detective-Dragnet Magazine and its new focus was on detective tales. This caught the reading public's attention, and sales surged. With the March 1933 issue, the title was changed to Ten Detective Aces, and that was the title that stuck. Authors such as Lester Dent, Novell Page, Frederick C. Davis, Norman Daniels, and Emile C. Tepperman wrote for the pages of Ten Detective Aces. It lasted until September 1949, offering up detective excitement for a total of 202 issues. Ten Detective Aces returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Nightmare Island — Novelet
by Norman A. Daniels
On that tale of disaster, a dead man’s legacy bequeaths hate-spawned destruction.
Prosecutor’s Payoff
by D. L. Champion
Satan makes a special reservation at the morgue.
Twice-Killed Corpse
by Fredric Brown
A bookworm sleuth becomes a stooge in a sinister setup.
A Night With Johnny Jethro
by Charles Ingerman
Purchase of the bronze Buddha brings him under the spell of an eerie Oriental wizardry.
Alibi for Sale
by William Campbell Gault
A post-mortem debt demands payment in blood.
First Find the Body — Novelet
by H.Q. Masur
The Casket Kid finds that someone has measured him for a wooden overcoat.
Death Is a Traitor
by Charles Larson
There is no detour to the Big House when homicide blazes the path.
The Devil’s Handmaiden
by S.J. Bailey
This detective team pulls a Bowery bum act for the benefit of a shakedown specialist.
Frame for the Phonies
by Edward James
Barney Sutton locks horns with a hot-money mob.
Murder’s Quiz Book
by David M. Norman
Detective Brandon seeks information at a strange seance.