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:
A Novelet
Bereave It Or Not
By Thorne Lee
Only the Grim Reaper seems likely to reward the dick that solves the case of the absent-minded killer.
Murder In Small Packages
By William Rough
Benny Kerr discovers that axe-maniac butchery isn’t rationed.
A Snitch In Time
By E.C. Marshall
Locked in a windowless room, a kidnapped magnate finds a way to throw light on his captor.
Satan Hogs The Camera
By Emil Petaja
Stand-in Kelley doubles for the hero in a hot-lead drama.
The Ironclad Alibi
By Gunnison Steele
This suspect can prove he’s innocent with the finality of the grave.
The Con Is Green — “Dizzy Duo” Yarn
By Joe Archibald
Nobody but the Boston crackpot, Snooty Piper, could turn spots before his eyes into a spot for a killer.
Homicide At The 5 & 10
By Stewart Toland
Terry Grey’s battle-bought dagger demands a second blood fee before Terry can win home-front peace.
The Criminal Had Crust
By D.A. Hoover
The price of a bakery homicide is a state-supervised frying.
Coffin Nail Piracy
By Neil Moran
Dying for smokes, that gang seems likely to croak for them also.
Deuces Dealt For Death
By Glenn Low
When success goes to a knife-slayer’s head, it’s quite likely to slit his throat.