Ace Magazines published so many detective magazines that it's hard to keep track of them all. But they knew what they were doing. Action galore! Heroes of the police battle underworld thugs! This is what Ace Magazines specialized in. They published titles like Capt. Hazzard, Lone Wolf Detective, Spy Novels, Eerie Stories, Secret Agent X and Ace Mystery. Gold Seal Detective was a good example of the top-notch detective thrills that they delivered to their readers every month. Unfortunately, it was one of their shorter-lived magazines. It made its debut with the December 1935 issue and continued under this title for six issues. The name was changed to Ace Detective Magazine with the August 1936 issue, but closed after only three more issues. While it lasted, it offered mystery and thrills to countless readers. Gold Seal Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Rough-’Em-Up Radigan
by Clark Aiken
The juggernaut of justice swings his crime-crushing machine against a vicious murder quartette, following a trail that is marked by red blood and a yellow streak — only to slam his way to a trap and be checkmated by a friend.
Three Novelettes
G-Man Justice
by Tom Roan
Never before had a group of G-men found themselves so much on the spot — for they have to stand by without firing a shot while one of their own men is gunned to death.
Nightstick Nemesis
by Frederick C. Painton
The news-sheets dubbed Patrolman Barney Dall the “Killing Cop.” Criminals called him the “Murder Bull.” The Commissioner has even worse names for him when Barney takes matters into his own hands — only to plunge into a suicide snare that is bullet-lined.
While The Hot Seat Waits
by Norman A. Daniels
The relentless Crime Busters worm their way into a killers’ den — only to find themselves trapped in a flaming funeral pyre with a murdered man. And all the while the hot seat waits for criminals long overdue.
Action Short Stories
The Death Parole
by David M. Norman
Officer Dan swore that he would get any man who killed Robert Reade, a criminal he had to admire. Yet Reade is killed — during a two-hour period when Dan sat watching the man he is sure must have committed the murder.
Murder Debt
by Paul Chadwick
The T-men knew it was the Ghost they wanted — but the Ghost lives up to his name.
Counterfeit Clues
by Darrell Jordan
State Trooper Tom Sterling hits a manhunt trail lined with too many clues.
Homicide Candy
by John Haderman
Officer Mahoney picks up the gauntlet that the Marshmallow Kid flings down in a murderous blaze of flaming lead.
