List of Ace mystery double titles

Ace Books published 135 mystery Ace doubles between 1952 and 1965 in dos-a-dos format.

Genres and Collectability[]

Ace published science fiction, mysteries, and westerns, as well as books not in any of these genres. Collectors of these genres have found the Ace doubles an attractive set of books to collect, because of the unusual appearance of the dos-a-dos format.

The list given here gives a date of publication; in all cases this refers to the date of publication by Ace, and not the date of original publication of the novels. For more information about the history of these titles, see Ace Books, which includes a discussion of the serial numbering conventions used and an explanation of the letter-code system.

D Series[]

D-1 MY Samuel W. Taylor The Grinning Gismo / Keith Vining Too Hot For Hell (1952)
D-3 MY The Big Fix / Kate Clugston Twist the Knife Slowly (A Murderer in the House) (1952)
D-5 MY The Scarlet Spade / Harry Whittington Drawn To Evil (1952)
D-7 MY I, the Executioner (False Bounty) / Harry Whittington So Dead My Love! (1953)
D-9 MY Decoy / If I Die Before I Wake (1953)
D-11 MY Day Keene Mrs. Homicide / Dead Ahead
D-15 MY William S. Burroughs (as William Lee) Junkie / Narcotic Agent (1953)
D-16 MY Edmond de Goncourt and J. De Goncourt Germinie / Paul Bourget Crime D'Amour (1953)
D-17 MY William Campbell Gault (as Roney Scott) Shakedown / Howard Fast (as Walter Ericson) The Darkness Within
D-19 MY Hal Braham (as Mel Colton) Never Kill A Cop / Leslie Edgley Fear No More (1953)
D-21 MY Nightshade / Lester Dent High Stakes (1953)
D-23 MY Louis Trimble (as Stuart Brock) Bring Back Her Body / Richard Sale Passing Strange (1953)
D-27 MY Bruno Fischer The Fingered Man / Hal Braham (as Mel Colton) Double Take (1953)
D-29 MY The Fast Buck / Dead Man Friday
D-33 MY Murder By The Pack / Frank Kane About Face
D-37 MY The Drowning Wire / Will Oursler Departure Delayed (1953)
D-40 MY Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish) Waltz Into Darkness / Bishop Scylla
D-41 MY Day Keene Death House Doll / Thomas B. Dewey Mourning After (1953)
D-45 MY Dead Hitches A Ride / Leslie Edgley Tracked Down (1954)
D-47 MY Joe Barry Kiss And Kill / On The Hook (1954)
D-49 MY Tongking! / Charles Grayson Golden Temptress
D-51 MY Switcheroo / Lawrence Treat Over The Edge (1954)
D-55 MY The Tobacco Auction Murders / Kill-Box
D-57 MY A. S. Fleischman Counterspy Express / (as Charles L. Leonard) Treachery In Trieste (1954)
D-59 MY Robert Bloch Spiderweb / The Corpse In My Bed (1951)
D-63 MY Harry Whittington You'll Die Next! / Drag The Dark
D-71 MY John Creasey (as Gordon Ashe) Drop Dead! / The Case Of The Hated Senator (1954)
D-77 MY Leigh Brackett (as George Sanders) Stranger At Home / Stephen Marlowe Catch The Brass Ring (1954)
D-81 MY Liability Limited / Too Many Sinners
D-89 MY Stephen Marlowe Turn Left For Murder / and Death Watch (1955)
D-101 MY Jack Karney Knock 'Em Dead / Hal Braham (as Mel Colton) Point Of No Escape
D-109 MY Mambo To Murder / I See Red (1955)
D-115 MY Harry Whittington One Got Away / Shady Lady (1955)
D-123 MY Gil Brewer The Squeeze / Love Me To Death (1955)
D-129 MY Day Keene The Dangling Carrot / Silenced Witnesses (1955)
D-135 MY Milton K. Ozaki Maid For Murder / Rene Brabazon Raymond (as James Hadley Chase) Dead Ringer (1955)
D-147 MY Prowl Cop / My Private Hangman (1956)
D-149 MY (as Dale Clark) A Run For The Money / The Thin Edge Of Mania (1955)
D-157 MY Louis Trimble Stab In The Dark / Never Say No To A Killer
D-167 MY Milton K. Ozaki Never Say Die / Destroying Angel (1956)
D-170 MY Day Keene Flight By Night / Black Fire
D-177 MY Stephen Marlowe (as C.H. Thames) Violence Is Golden / The Girl In The Cop's Pocket (1956)
D-185 MY Daniel Mainwaring (as Geoffrey Homes) Build My Gallows High / Harry Whittington The Humming Box (1956)
D-189 MY Lawrence Treat Weep For A Wanton / Stephen Marlowe Dead On Arrival (1956)
D-195 MY The Quaking Widow / (as Owen Dudley) The Deep End
D-197 MY TNT For Two / (as Ferguson Findley) Counterfeit Corpse (1956)
D-201 MY Harry Whittington Across That River / Saturday Mountain (1957)
D-203 MY Cain's Girl Friend / Uneasy Lies The Head (1957)
D-209 MY A Night For Treason / F. L. Wallace Three Times A Victim (1957)
D-217 MY Downwind / A Rage To Kill (1957)
D-221 MY Gordon Ashe You've Bet Your Life / Terror Package (1957)
D-225 MY Kendell Foster Crossen (as M. E. Chaber) A Lonely Walk / Loser By A Head (1957)
D-231 MY (as Owen Dudle) Murder For Charity / Edward S. Aarons (as Edward Ronn) Point Of Peril (1957)
D-235 MY Jack Webb (as John Farr) The Lady And The Snake / Louis Trimble Nothing To Lose But My Life (1957)
D-241 MY Harry Whittington One Deadly Dawn / Wilson Tucker The Hired Target (1957)
D-247 MY Look Out Behind You / Not So Evil As Eve (1957)
D-253 MY Bruce Cassiday The Buried Motive / (as Spencer Dean) Marked Down For Murder (1957)
D-259 MY Michael Avallone The Case Of The Violent Virgin / The Case Of The Bouncing Betty (1957)
D-265 MY Robert Bloch Shooting Star / Robert Bloch Terror In The Night (And Other Stories)
D-273 MY Ernest Jason Fredericks Shakedown Hotel / John Roscoe and (as Mike Roscoe) The Midnight Eye (1958)
D-279 MY J. Harvey Bond Bye Bye, Baby! / Murder Mutuel
D-285 MY Bruce Cassiday Brass Shroud / Joseph Linklater Odd Woman Out (1958)
D-289 MY Alan Payne This'll Slay You / John Hawkins and Ward Hawkins Violent City
D-297 MY Peter Rabe The Cut Of The Whip / Kill One, Kill Two (1958)
D-301 MY Jack Webb (as John Farr) The Deadly Combo / Russ Winterbotham (as J. Harvey Bond) Murder Isn't Funny (1958)
D-305 MY Free-Lance Murder / Louis King Cornered (1958)
D-313 MY Samuel Krasney Design For Dying / The Deadly Boodle (1958)
D-317 MY The Wayward Blonde / The Big Bite (1958)
D-321 MY Trial By Perjury / Louis Trimble The Smell Of Trouble (1958)
D-329 MY (as Emmett Mcdowell) Stamped For Death / (as Emmett Mcdowell) Three For The Gallows (1958)
D-333 MY Scream Street / Stranglehold (1959)
D-347 MY Louis Trimble The Corpse Without A Country / Harry Whittington Play For Keeps (1957)
D-349 MY (as Mike Brett) The Guilty Bystander / Russell Robert Winterbotham (as J. Harvey Bond) Kill Me With Kindness (1959)
D-357 MY Lester Dent Lady In Peril / Floyd Wallace Wired For Scandal (1959)
D-361 MY Dangerous To Know / Murder Mistress (1959)
D-367 MY Louis Trimble Till Death Do Us Part / Charles E. Fritch Negative Of A Nude (1959)
D-373 MY Jack Karney The Knave Of Diamonds / Scarlet Starlet (1959)
D-379 MY Mistress Of Horror House / (as J. M. Flynn) Drink With The Dead (1959)
D-387 MY Fare Prey / The Bikini Bombshell (1959)
D-393 MY (as John Creighton) Evil Is The Night / Dictators Die Hard (1959)
D-401 MY Louis Trimble Obit Deferred / I Want Out (1959)
D-409 MY Louis Trimble Cargo For The Styx / (as J.M. Flynn) Terror Tournament (1959)
D-415 MY (as Stewart Sterling) ''Fire On Fear Street / Dead Certain (1960)
D-419 MY Open Season / A Slice Of Death (1958)
D-425 MY (as Paul Kruger) Dig Her A Grave / (as John Creighton) A Half Interest In Murder (1960)
D-433 MY If Hate Could Kill / The Smasher (1960)
D-439 MY The Devil's Punchbowl / Run If You Can (1960)
D-445 MY (as Emmett Mcdowell) Bloodline To Murder / In At The Kill (1960)
D-447 MY Kiss The Babe Goodbye / The Hot Chariot (1960)
D-451 MY Odds Against Linda / A Key To The Morgue (1960)
D-459 MY The Hot Diary / Ring Around A Rogue (1960)
D-463 MY (as Stewart Sterling) Dying Room Only / The Body In The Bed (1960)
D-469 MY Running Scared / Man-Killer (1960)
D-477 MY Louis Trimble The Duchess Of Skid Row / Love Me And Die (1961)
D-483 MY Russell Robert Winterbotham (as J. Harvey Bond) If Wishes Were Hearses / Bruce Cassiday The Corpse In The Picture Window (1961)
D-489 MY Somebody's Walking Over My Grave / (as John Miles) Dally With A Deadly Doll (1961)
D-499 MY Night Drop / High Heel Homicide (1961)
D-505 MY Louis Trimble The Surfside Caper / In A Vanishing Room (1961)
D-511 MY One For The Death House / Drop Dead, Please (1961)
D-515 MY Kill Me A Fortune / (as Stewart Sterling) Five Alarm Funeral (1961)

F Series[]

F-102 MY The Flying Eye / Never Forget, Never Forgive (1961)
F-107 MY My Pal, The Killer / John Trinian Scratch A Thief (1961)
F-111 MY The Girl From Las Vegas / To Have And To Kill (1960)
F-115 MY The Blonde Cried Murder / Killing Cousins (1961)
F-121 MY Sing Me A Murder / Woman Missing And Other Stories (1961)
F-125 MY Deep Six / The Widow Maker (1961)
F-130 MY The Screaming Cargo / The Bullet-Proof Martyr (1961)
F-143 MY A Stone Around Her Neck / End Of A Big Wheel (1962)
F-155 MY Lionel White A Death At Sea / The Time Of Terror (1961)
F-166 MY Georges Simenon Maigret And The Reluctant Witness / Maigret Has Scruples (1958)
F-229 MY Louis Trimble The Dead And The Deadly / Homicide Handicap (1963)

G Series[]

G-501 MY Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (as Charlotte Armstrong) Incident At A Corner / The Unsuspected (1965)
G-503 MY Ursula Curtiss The Face Of The Tiger / The Stairway (1962)
G-506 MY Doris Miles Disney Black Mail / Did She Fall Or Was She Pushed?
G-508 MY The Schemers / But Not Forgotten (1965)
G-509 MY Elisabeth Sanxay Holding The Virgin Huntress / The Innocent Mrs. Duff (1951)
G-511 MY Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (as Charlotte Armstrong) The Chocolate Cobweb / Who's Been Sitting In My Chair? (1965)
G-512 MY Elisabeth Sanxay Holding The Blank Wall / The Girl Who Had To Die (1965)
G-513 MY Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (as Charlotte Armstrong) Then Came Two Women / Catch As Catch Can (1965)
G-518 MY Helen Reilly Follow Me / The Opening Door (1965)
G-519 MY Holding The Old Battle Axe / The Obstinate Murderer (1965)
G-521 MY Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (as Charlotte Armstrong) Mischief / The Better To Eat You (1965)
G-523 MY Ursula Curtiss The Forbidden Garden / Hours To Kill (1965)
G-524 MY Holding Who's Afraid? / Widow's Mite (1965)
G-525 MY The Tentacles / Spin The Web Tight (1965)
G-526 MY Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (as Charlotte Armstrong) The Mark Of The Hand / The Dream Walker (1965)
G-528 MY Helen Reilly Certain Sleep / Ding Dong Bell (1965)
G-529 MY Unappointed Rounds / Mrs. Meeker's Money (1965)
G-530 MY Holding The Unfinished Crime / Net Of Cobwebs (1963)
G-531 MY Helen Reilly Not Me, Inspector / The Canvas Dagger (1965)
G-533 MY Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (as Charlotte Armstrong) The Black-Eyed Stranger / The One-Faced Girl (1965)
G-534 MY Holding Kill Joy / Speak Of The Devil (1965)
G-535 MY The Lost One / The Frightened Child (1965)
G-539 MY Duet In Death: Composition For Four Hands / Duet In Death: The House (1965)
G-543 MY Mildred Davis The Dark Place / They Buried A Man (1965)

References[]

Ace Image Library. Contains images of most covers for the doubles in all genres, as well as many of the single titles.
Bookscans. Contains numerous images of the Ace covers.

The following reference has not been seen but covers the Ace Doubles:

Jaffery, Sheldon Double Trouble: A Bibliographic Chronicle of Ace Mystery Doubles, Starmont Popular Culture Series no. 11, Borgo Press, 1987. ISBN 1-55742-118-8.