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Ten Detective AcesOctober, 1943
Vol. XLVIII, No. 4.
Edited by Donald A. Wollheim
Cover art by Jerome Rozen for "The Case of the Headless Client" by Emile C. Tepperman.
Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Periodical House, Springfield, MA. 1943. 96 pgs. Text in double column.
Issued in stapled wraps. Wrappers worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present (chipping; closed tears). Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
Cover art by Jerome Rozen for "The Case of the Headless Client" (novelet) by Emile C. Tepperman. Includes "Postscript to Mein Kampf" by William Rough; "Death Insurance Payment" by Fredric Brown; "Doubling for a Killer" by Francis K. Allan; "The Tobacco Murder" (extra feature this month) by Mark Wright; "The Corpse Nobody Wanted" (novelet) by David X. Manners; "Out of the Frying Pen" by Greta Bardet; "Hang His Wreath" by H. Q. Masur; "The Corn Is Red" by Robert Turner; "A Nose for Crime" by John Michel; "By Hook - One Crook" ("Dizzy Duo") by Joe Archibald.
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| Book formats and corresponding sizes | ||||||
| Name | Abbreviations | Leaves | Pages | Approximate cover size (width × height) | ||
| inches | cm | |||||
| folio | 2º or fo | 2 | 4 | 12 × 19 | 30.5 × 48 | |
| quarto | 4º or 4to | 4 | 8 | 9½ × 12 | 24 × 30.5 | |
| octavo | 8º or 8vo | 8 | 16 | 6 × 9 | 15 × 23 | |
| duodecimo or twelvemo | 12º or 12mo | 12 | 24 | 5 × 7⅜ | 12.5 × 19 | |
| sextodecimo or sixteenmo | 16º or 16mo | 16 | 32 | 4 × 6¾ | 10 × 17 | |
| octodecimo or eighteenmo | 18º or 18mo | 18 | 36 | 4 × 6½ | 10 × 16.5 | |
| trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo | 32º or 32mo | 32 | 64 | 3½ × 5½ | 9 × 14 | |
| quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo | 48º or 48mo | 48 | 96 | 2½ × 4 | 6.5 × 10 | |
| sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo | 64º or 64mo | 64 | 128 | 2 × 3 | 5 × 7.5 | |
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