PERIL PRESS presents:
6 WEIRD MENACE TALES
By Emile C. Tepperman
Secret Agent X, February 1935
THE TERROR’S TRADEMARK
by Emile C. Tepperman
It was just a slip of pink paper written in Spanish, but Don Manton was one of those wise dicks who could read death in any language.
13,200 Words
Secret Agent “X", April 1935
TAKING NO CHANCES
by Emile C. Tepperman
An Interesting Short Short
1700 Words
Secret Agent X, May 1935
TOMB OF TORMENT
by Emile C Tepperman
After three days of chasing around town as bodyguard to a beautiful girl—at a hundred bucks a day and all expenses paid — Don Manton was beginning to feel that life had its moments after all. But it wasn’t long after he looked into the gaunt, parchment-like face of a man named Borchard that he realized how few these moments can be.
7200 Words
Secret Agent X, September 1935
PAID IN SLUGS
by Emile C. Tepperman
Roger Barclay had faced death many times—at the point of a gun, in the grip of a strangler’s fingers. But now he was to learn what it meant to die—artistically. For the tall, thin man with opaque eyes who towered above him like a snake about to spring boasted that he was an artist without equal—in the fine art of exquisite torture.
10,300 Words
Secret Agent X, March, 1938
THE SUICIDE COTERIE
by Emile C. Tepperman
Private Detective Taylor thought the assignment was only a routine bodyguard job. But in that tumbledown, gloomy hotel he found himself at the mercy of ...
6100 Words
Clues, October 1939
THE MANCHU SKULL
by Emile C. Tepperman
Ch1: The Left-Handed Swordsman!
Ch2: The Manchu Skull!
Ch3: Trapped!
Ch4: The Venerable Leader!
9600 Words
This edition includes the original illustrations to the stories as well as the covers from the magazines they were published in.