PERIL PRESS presents:
Ten Detective Aces, February 1934
THE HOUSE OF KAA
by Richard B Sale
Scotland Yard thought it strange that the firm of Gorgan & Wilkins imported only regal pythons. But no law was being broken. And they thought it very strange when the Cobra, a lone avenger from India, suddenly appeared in London. But the Cobra had once helped them, so there was no investigation. And the greatest surprise of all was the appearance of Deen Bradley of the British Intelligence -- who had an amazing plan to offer.
5400 Words
Secret Agent X, March, 1934
TERROR TRAIN
A Thrilling Novelet
by Richard B. Sale
Suddenly and with shrill horrific cadence, a macabre tortured shriek split through the nocturnal silence of the night. In that instant The Crescent Limited, snowbound in the Rockies, became a Terror Train...
Chapter 1: Cold Steel
Chapter 2: Death in the Dark
Chapter 3: The Incredible Truth
Chapter 4: The Killer
11,400 Words
Secret Agent “X”, May, 1934
STING OF THE SCORPION
Complete Novelette
by Richard B. Sale
Silent bony fingers of Death flung a challenge into the teeth of Detective Marty Trent. Before his very eyes men became gore covered corpses. Lips were sealed by a death so gruesome that men turned their eyes away. And the fiend of evil left no mark!
Chapter 1: The Glory Death
Chapter 2: The Death Note
Chapter 3: The Scorpion Strikes
Chapter 4: The Death Sting
10,700 Words
Secret Agent “X”, August 1934
THE WHISPERING CORPSE
Complete Novelette
by Richard B. Sale
Bart Trevor knew that a corpse couldn't talk. Yet when that unearthly voice sliced out of the gloomy morgue walls, it struck an icy dread into his pounding heart. It was uncanny -- a ghastly rasping slither like the hissing of an angry snake.
Chapter 1: Chamber of Death
Chapter 2: Terror Torture
Chapter 3: Escape
Chapter 4: Death Rendezvous
9,500 Words
Popular Detective, September 1935
THE WILL
By Richard B. Sale
Author of “The Reptile Murders,” etc.
A Cold-Blooded Murder Perpetrated for Gain -- and the Aftermath!
1900 Words
Star Detective Magazine, March 1937
$50,000 LEGS
by Richard Sale
Death sets a high price on a set of lovely limbs.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
5100 Words
This edition includes the illustrations from all six stories as well as the covers to all six of the pulp magazines in which these stories were first published.
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