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:
The Black Friar Murders — Novelet
by Joseph Commings
Only a ghost can enter that impenetrable dungeon of doom.
Big House Buffoon
by D.A. Hoover
This clown heads for the big house, not the big top.
Fast Trip to Hades
by H.Q. Masur
He takes a fast train to keep a rendezvous with death.
The Belle Told — “Dizzy Duo” Yarn
by Joe Archibald
Snooty and Scoop find the housing shortage contributes to the graveyard population.
Homicide at Hurricane Manor — Novelet
by Robert M. Hodges
The guests at this strange party find themselves marooned with a corpse.
Goldbrick Solitaire
by C.M. Kornbluth
The end of that card game also spells the end of a man’s life.
Photo of a Kill
by Norman A. Daniels
A camera shot in the dark turns cut to be a phantom photo.
The Hammerless Heater
by Rodney Worth
Even a gun artist can get tripped up on trigger time.
Killer With a Conscience
by Neil Moran
Because Luke Grudgins has murder on his mind, he fashions his own trap of disaster.
Dispatch to Doom
by Edward William Murphy
A detective who plays hunches can play with too much fire.