Coffin Curtain Call - 8 Tales of Weird Murder [Illustrated]

PERIL PRESS presents:

Popular Detective, October 1941
HOMICIDE WHOLESALE
by Harold Q. Masur
Author of “Doctor of Doom,” “Device for Death,” etc.
A Disappearing Deb Stirs Up a Hornet’s Nest of Trouble for Private Sleuth Petrie!
5 Chapters
11,000 Words

Ten Detective Aces, April, 1940
DOCTOR OF DOOM
by H.Q. Masur
Author of “Hot Squat C.O.D.,” etc.
The mystery of the headless cadavers hurled Assistant Coroner Craig into a sleuth role—with a slab setting. And he was chosen to fill the corpse cast when crime's curtain fell on Satan's last act.
5100 Words

Ten Detective Aces, October 1940
HELL’S IMPERSONATION
By H. Q. Masur
Young Joe Brion was no actor, but the advertisement called for an impersonation. So Joe put on a pistol performance that flung him into a coffin curtain call.
5800 Words

Ten Detective Aces, November 1940
COFFIN CUSTOMER
by H.Q. Masur
Author of “Hell’s Impersonations,” etc.
Detective Ed Travis had to cash in on bargain booty to keep his client from becoming a . . . .
5700 Words

Ten Detective Aces, July, 1941
KNAVES AND KNIVES
By H. Q. Masur
Author of “Bullet Business,” etc.
Lady Luck was snubbing Sam Quentin. He wanted a new deal in the crazy homicide honeymoon case—but all he got was a double-deal in knaves and knives.
5500 Words

Ten Detective Aces, July 1941
FANGS OF JUSTICE
by H.Q. Masur
as Hal Quincy
Author of “A Phantom Decree,” etc.
The stone throat of the statue of the blindfolded lady must have rumbled with laughter when courtroom clowns turned the law into the . . . .
1700 Words

Ten Detective Aces, July 1942
STAR-TOTER PAYMASTER
by H.Q. Masur
As Quentin Hall
Louis Rieck stopped off in that sleepy cowtown to finish a job—and get paid for it. But Louis did not know that before he could collect he had to square accounts with a . . . .
STAR-TOTER PAYMASTER (Extra story this month) Quentin Hall p89
Long-standing accounts are squared on a bullet basis.
2100 Words

Ten Detective Aces, October 1943
HANG HIS WREATH
by H.Q. Masur
Ottman had trapped that watchman tight. But it was Ottman’s neck the trap was tightened to.
Ottman traps the watchman tight—with a noose fastened to Ottman’s own neck.
2100 Words

This edition includes the illustrations and magazine covers for all 8 stories.