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:
Novel
The Blood Barrier
by John K. Butler
Mike McLernon’s old chief forced him to turn in his detective badge for prying into the “closed” Barnwell case. But McLernon plunged blindly, without authority of the law, into a flesh-and-blood trap of his own making.
Novelets
A Frame For Dynamite
by H.H. Stinson
It was a suicidal job for Detective Pat Kilroy to get that blonde’s body under cover when a savage frame-up combo was eagle-eying his every move.
Murder Between The Lines
by Carl McK. Saunders
When Captain John Murdock found that Gloria West was in danger, he discovered that he could do only one thing to help her — take the part of the corpse-to-be on a one-way ride.
“Dizzy Duo” Yarn
G-Man Friday
by Joe Archibald
Snooty and Scoop follow the clue of egg-stain, instead of bloodstain, in the case of the impolite murder of Mr. Quagmyre.
Detective Stories
Emperor Blackmail
by Steve Fisher
A lovely young girl’s trust rested in Detective Captain Mark Turner’s hands. Yet he thought he was hard-boiled enough to blast her faith in life — just to convict his man.
Last Chance Acre
by Maitland Scott
“Mother” Calahan, traffic cop, wanted to prove to the scoffers at headquarters that a family man’s knowledge can sometimes trap killers.
Dame Death
by S.J. Bailey
That mystery hitch-hiker was willing to thumb his way into the treachery car of the pick-up murder girl who cold-bloodedly tossed her victims along the highways.
Hell’s Hostage
by Archer Williams
Knowing that his possession of the grim Kubla ruby promised torture and death, Dave Belden kept the gem. For it was the touchstone to happiness for Anne Shepard.
April Fool’s Finish
by Cliff Howe
A True Crime Story
Posed By The Reaper
by Ralph Powers
Inspector Ben Hauser’s chance of breaking a killer’s alibi hung by a hair that might mean his own scalp.
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