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 Gripping Novel
Death’s Too Good
By H.H. Stinson
Lieutenant Ben Hagan tried to trap Granlund, the racket czar who had killed Detectives Pete and Aldo Correlli. And when Nita, vengeful sister of the dead Correlli brothers, started using her tiny pistol, she tangled Hagan’s gunless strategy in a trigger giveaway.
Novelets
Default with Doom
By Cleve F. Adams
Mike Shane, private dick, offered to trade the life of a gambling queen for the life of the girl he loved.
Murder Maiden
By Steve Fisher
Detective Bill Duke had to prove that all the witnesses to murder were all stark mad — or lose the girl he loved to the arms of the electric chair.
Short Stories
A Bullet for Two
By Bob Gordon
A kid’s faith, a copper’s self-respect, and a man’s life might all be saved if the slug proved to be... A Bullet For Two!
The Sealed Clue
By Stephen Payne
Frederick Layton forgot to do for his victim the one simple service any green stenographer would not overlook.
Pacific Peril
By Howard J. Perry
A spy and a G-man — each held the fate of the other at his finger-tips, but neither could make the first move.
Crime’s Stepson
By S.J. Bailey
Detective Hansen’s soft heart put him on a hard spot — when he adopted a kid, whose ambition was to cool cops with a flaming gat.
Stunt Devil
By James Dyson
Private Detective Colin Corey had to let airplane cameramen photograph him, high in the air, clutched in the talons of the Grim Reaper — without a parachute...
The Judas Brand
By Clem Beal
Officer Danny McFee suspected his beautiful wife of wearing... The Judas Brand!
A Snitch in Time —”Dizzy Duo” Yarn
By Joe Archibald
Snooty and Scoop, crackpot newshawks, read the funny papers for a dizzy clue to murder!
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.
