Ten detective stories, every one complete. All kinds of stories, each designed to keep the reader wide awake. That was 10 Story Detective. Every publisher of pulp magazines had a stable of detective action magazines. From Ace Magazines, also known as Fiction House, came 10 Story Detective magazine, which featured shorter detective fiction. Fiction House was probably most famous for its long running jungle pulp featuring the Jungle Stories of Ki-Gor. Fiction House, aka Ace Magazines, started in the crime fiction field with Ten Detective Aces in 1928 (under the short-lived title of The Dragnet Magazine). As the audience for detective yards increased, Ace Magazines added 10 Story Detective, premiering in January 1938 and the magazine ran for eleven years, winding up with the August 1949 issue. It was standard sized at 112 pages and cost a standard dime, yet within those pages were some of the most entertaining crime fiction printed. 10 Story Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Novelet
The Crime Of My Life
by G.T. Fleming-Roberts
This harmless summons case unexpectedly snarls Detective Jim Nettleton in an incredible double murder.
Has Anybody Here Slain Kelly?
by Francis Lewis
This lovely makes her last close-up in the morgue.
True Crime Feature
He Stole A Crown
by Harold Gluck
With a price on his head, he makes plans to steal the Royal Crown.
“Alvin Hinkey” Yarn
Where There’s A Will, There’s A Wake
by Joe Archibald
All clues in this homicide high jinks point to a voodoo kill.
Short Stories
Forgive Us Our Dead
by Robert Turner
The arm of the Law, Stafford finds, is stronger than any — except the grip of Death.
Blood In The Bargain
by Edward Ronns
He makes one last attempt to trade his own life for his wife’s freedom.
Duck Death
by Margaret Rice
A character in distress needs a live duck for a man who will soon be a dead pigeon.
Satan Flips The Coin
by M.E. Counselman
Though he’ll bet on anything, this time he takes long odds on his own life.
Murder’s Crystal Ball
by Nicholas Zook
Hell pops when a horoscope artist knows more about murder than he does about the stars.
You’ll Die Laughing
by Ray Cummings
Full of magic and tricks, that shop was a place you’d expect to laugh in — not die in!
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