Pulp Fiction, 1939 · page 4 of 116
10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This is the table of contents page for *10-Story Detective Magazine*, Vol. II, No. 4 (July 1939). It lists ten crime and detective fiction stories by various authors, ranging from page 7 to page 99, with brief plot descriptions for each—tales involving carnival murders, revenge plots, homicide investigations, and criminal schemes. The page also includes standard publication information identifying it as an Ace Magazine publication.
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Vol. I | JULY, 1939 No. 4 we THE CORPSE AT THE CARNIVAL (Novelet) Dwight V. Babcock 7 Death rides the Dragon Slide at a beach resort. x LONG-DISTANCE DOOM ...... . . Grant Mason 33 A fast gan and quick brain turn a hot-water hell-spot inte cold soup. y% HOMICIDE DEMON .... . . . Harold F.Sorensen 43 Detective Hammond is a homicide hellion on the corpse trail. y%& FATAL EFFIGY ...... . +. +. +. Benton Greer 51 Silence thunders—with a two-theusand year eld eche. ye JAILBIRD JUSTICE . .. . . =. . +. Dom Cameron 55 The justice of the law plays jailbird tag—with shattered heritage. ye MAUSOLEUM MISSION . . . . . . +. Paul Adams 65 Doom lurks undergreund in the mystery of the leoted crypis. ye SLAUGHTER EPIDEMIC .... . . . Leon Dupont 76 H. Q. Detective Evans seeks a gun eure for the slaughter epidemic. ye PLUNDER PACT ..... . . . . Joseph Dennis 85 Vengeance turns the tables on a double-cross. ye KILLER OF THE CRAGLAND .... . . Eric Lennox 88 A new kimd of crime chart is needed to analyze this murder blueprint. yw RAP FOR ARAT ....... +. . Chester Brant 99 Biff Duryea exchanges a fur rap for a rat rap. Cover by Norman Saunders This is an Ace Magazine—See Page 4 10-STORY DETECTIVE, published bi-monthly by Periodical House, Inc. Rose Wyn, President. Office of Publication, 29 Worthington Street, Springfield, Mass. Editorial and executive offices, 67 West 44th Street, New York, N. Y. Entered as Second Class matter, October 15, 1937, at the Post Office at Springfield, Mass., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1939, Periodical House, Inc. For advertising rates address Ace Fiction Group, 67 West 44th Street, New York, N. Y. While great care is exercised in the handling of manu- scripts this magazine assumes no responsibility for their safety. Yearly subscription, 60 cents; single copy, 1@ cents. COMmmicoookS.COnn