Peril Press presents:
Secret Agent “X”, February 1934
FANGED FURY
by Frederick C. Davis
Swiftly Professor Van Dyk swung the door shut. Too late! Through the opening swished a glittering green dart of light. The deadly flying snake had escaped.
Chapter 1: Winged Poison
Chapter 2: The Hovering Horror
Chapter 3: Death Gives An Alibi
Chapter 4: The Lash Of Death
10,100 Words
Ten Detective Aces, June 1941
DAMES ON A BULLET BINGE
by Frederick C. Davis
There was Sue, the rich man's daughter—and Donna, the willful beauty—and Rosita, the glamour guy's wife—and Vella, the luscious dancer . . . Young Mike, the lawyer, tried to help them all—and mixed corpses with cocktails on a merry murder binge.
5 Chapters
11,700 Words
Ten Detective Aces, October 1941
THE PREMATURE OBITUARY
A Baffling Detective Novelet
by Frederick C. Davis
Death-Notice Dayle, 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.
Chapter 1: The Guarded Corpse
Chapter 2: Let the Grave Wait
Chapter 3: Riddle of Death
Chapter 4: Please Omit Flowers
Chapter 5: Ghost with a Gun
14,700 Words
Ten Detective Aces, July 1944
HEIR TODAY AND GUNNED TOMORROW
Great Detective Novelet
by Frederick C. Davis
Curt Hafford, chief of detectives, sat at his desk and the corpses came to him. He went home and the murder clues knocked at his door. But every time Curt tried to bank that case in his city’s jail, all he could grab was the smoke of the vanished killer’s cigarette.
5 Chapters
10,700 Words
Ten Detective Aces, August 1946
DEADLINE AT MIDNIGHT
by Frederick C. Davis
They said that Johnny Foster had too many friends for a small-town cop. And when someone put the snatch on him, it looked like the critics were right. But Johnny proved that even dead pals can payoff for him in live lead.
2400 Words
This edition includes illustrations for 4 of the stories and magazine covers for all five.
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