The Emergency Council for Crime Control enlisted Major John Tattersall Lacy to rid their city of crime. Lacy organized the crime fighting group, Amuse-ment Inc. Along with ex-Marines Charlie Weaver, Ed Corning, Pat Harrigan, and a group of others, they fought crime.In the series of stories in this book, they confront a ruthless and clever villain in The Scarlet Ace. Follow these four stories from the pages of All Detective Magazine for 1933.THE SCARLET ACEWith a cunning that mocked the law he held his foes at bay. Not until he blasted the one who failed, did they know the menace of his hidden hand.CANDIDATE FOR DEATHForgotten was the law of the pack when hired guns gave the wolf cry and the Scarlet Ace exacted the price of fear.HELL HOUSEWhen The Scarlet Ace laid his trap, Lacy found that safety was dangerous; that the hunter was hunted when his quarry has more eyes than a city.THE HOUSE OF CRIMEThe Scarlet Ace's net curled about the Major like tentacles of death, but the mad genius was himself caught by the one who called him "master."