Mystery and Crime Various: Ten Detective Aces Sampler 6. V1. 8 Mar 2012

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(Detective-)Dragnet Magazine/Ten Detective Aces
Ten Detective Aces was probably the most successful of the many magazines that Harold Hersey launched, and certainly one of the longest running, but it took a while to find its mark. For the first 16 issues (to April 1930) it was called The Dragnet Magazine and initially focussed on stories about gangsters and organised crime. However, by 1930 public interest in gangsters was fading and the magazine became more of a detective pulp, initially (for 24 issues) under the hybrid name Detective-Dragnet Magazine and then finally, from March 1933, under the name Ten Detective Aces under which it ran for an impressive 16 years.
A Canadian reprint edition of Ten Detective Aces ran briefly in the 1930s as a direct reprint of the US edition, and then throughout the 1940s typically reprinting a US issue from 9-12 months previously. There was also an abridged British reprint edition under the "abridged" title of Detective Aces.

THE TRANSIENT CORPSE—ROBERT TURNER

Dade Collins’ first guest at his tourist camp was . . . .The Transient Corpse.

PREMATURE OBITUARY—FREDERICK C. DAVIS

Death-Notice Doyle, obituary solicitor extraordinary, was trying to sell the wrong client. For the corpse in the coffin suddenly took it on the lam and left the embalmer waiting on the morgue steps.

STRAIT JACKETS FOR TWO—JOE ARCHIBALD

When Snooty and Scoop were doled out a couple of murder chores, their errand of evil fitted them for . . . . Strait Jackets for Two.

THE COPPER COBRA—NORMAN A. DANIELS

Attorney Stan Leonard's first case promised to be his last when he took a treatment from the health cult whose cure meant death.

FIFTY-GRAND FUNERAL—DAVID X. MANNERS

Larry Quintin had had plenty of strange experiences in the detective business. But this was the first time he got mixed up with a clairvoyant who pulled messages out of the air—and pushed Larry toward a fatal future.

THERE'S THAT CORPSE AGAIN—W. T. BALLARD

Happy Valley, with its winter sports, became a suicide playground for Jimmy Doane. For he was haunted by a corpse on skis that was determined to dog Jimmy’s snow trail until he reached the brink of hell’s jump-off.

COLLEGE FOR CROOKS—TOM MARVIN

Phil Denver traced a sharp-fingered brat's homework to a college for crime. But instead of handing out lock-up vacations, he found himself scheduled as the star subject in the murder class

MARCH OF THE DAMNED—JAMES A. KIRCH

IN THIS CORNER—DEATH!—EMILE C. TEPPERMAN

Tom Atherton smashed a murder car and saved a stranger's life. But the man he saved rewarded him with a death-house frame. And Tom's only friends were the killers he foiled.