Mystery and Crime Various: 10-Story Detective Magazine Sampler. V1. 13 Dec 2011

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Ten Story Detective Magazine
10-Story Detective Magazine was the youngest brother of Ten Detective Aces and a close relation of the short-lived Gold Seal Detective and Ace Detective, and, like them, shared a penchant for police and detective action stories. It ran for 67 issues from 1938 to 1949.
Both a British reprint edition and a Canadian reprint edition ran for a period in the 1940s.

HELL-BENT FOR THE MORGUE—DON LARSON

It looked like a cold trail to Roger Grant when he sought that ice-hot hide-out. But Grant had to learn that no sleuth spoor can be as cold as a morgue slab.

DELIVERY TO THE DEAD—STUART FRIEDMAN

There was nothing beautiful about the corpse in the beauty shop— but plenty that was queer. For the finger pointed to the driver of the laundry truck parked outside. And why would a laundryman make a Delivery to the Dead

QUICK-TRIGGER TEACHER—VERNON SHUFFETT, JR., AND REUBEN CRAIG

A modern-day crook gets a hot-lead lesson from an out-of-date trigger.

SMOKE TRAP BOOMERANG—WILLIAM STEIS

With a full-grown man lying dead on Hiram Cotter’s miniature railroad tracks, the old criminologist found himself meshed in a miniature network of murderous proportions.