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 Corpse Hangs High — Novelet
by H.Q. Masur
In this crime merry-go-round Detective Falcon grabs the brass ring that proves to be a lethal link to the grave.
You’ll End Up Burning!
by Fredric Brown
Instead of a camera click, the model for a hot-scat picture hears a gun click.
Death Plays The Ace
by D.L. Champion
Card Sharp Leighton rakes in a jackpot of crimson chips.
Voice Of Vengeance
by Peter Dawson
This actor writes his own script — with the Grim Reaper as director.
Hell’s Haunted Acres — “Baxter” Novelet
by Lawrence Treat
Baxter invades desolate swamp-land and falls into a quicksand of intrigue.
The Unwilling Witness
by Charles Ingerman
Little Benny Infortunato, dip artist, faces a double dilemma.
Homicide Cat’s-Paw
by Murray W. Mosser
His quick trigger finger makes Jimmy Chrome a stooge to slaughter.
Doom’s Impostor
by C. William Harrison
A schemer plots his own disappearance — too perfectly.
Phantom Frameup
by Don James
Only a few hours separate Sammy Lieber from the gallows.
The Devil’s Mission
by Guy Fleming
Man Wanted — to be the guest of honor in a funeral march.
These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook. Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s.
