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" Jack Meoff "The Sexual" / Keith Vining "Too Hot For Hell" (1952)
*D-1 "MY" Samuel W. Taylor "The Grinning Gismo" / Keith Vining "Too Hot For Hell" (1952)
*D-3 "MY" Mel Colton "The Big Fix" / Kate Clugston "Twist the Knife Slowly (A Murderer in the House)" (1952)
*D-5 "MY" Eaton R. Goldthwaite "The Scarlet Spade" / Harry Whittington "Drawn To Evil" (1952)
*D-7 "MY" Stephen Ransome "I, the Executioner (False Bounty)" / Harry Whittington "So Dead My Love!" (1953)
*D-9 "MY" Michael Morgan "Decoy" / Sherwood King "If I Die Before I Wake" (1953)
*D-11 "MY" Day Keene "Mrs. Homicide" / William L. Stuart "Dead Ahead"
*D-15 "MY" William Burroughs (as William Lee) "Junkie" / Maurice Helbrant "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" John N. Makris "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" Ross Laurence "The Fast Buck" / J. F. Hutton "Dead Man Friday"
*D-33 "MY" Carl G. Hodges "Murder By The Pack" / Frank Kane "About Face"
*D-37 "MY" Marvin Claire "The Drowning Wire" / Will Oursler "Departure Delayed" (1953)
*D-40 "MY" Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish) "Waltz Into Darkness" / Malden Grange "Bishop Scylla"
*D-41 "MY" Day Keene "Death House Doll" / Thomas B. Dewey "Mourning After" (1953)
*D-45 "MY" Martin L. Weiss "Dead Hitches A Ride" / Leslie Edgley "Tracked Down" (1954)
*D-47 "MY" Joe Barry "Kiss And Kill" / Richard Powell "On The Hook" (1954)
*D-49 "MY" Dan Cushman "Tongking! " / Charles Grayson "Golden Temptress"
*D-51 "MY" Emmett Mcdowell "Switcheroo" / Lawrence Treat "Over The Edge" (1954)
*D-55 "MY" Robert Turner "The Tobacco Auction Murders" / Michael Stark "Kill-Box"
*D-57 "MY" A. S. Fleischman "Counterspy Express" / M. V. Heberden (as Charles L. Leonard) "Treachery In Trieste" (1954)
*D-59 "MY" Robert Bloch "Spiderweb" / David Alexander "The Corpse In My Bed" (1951)
*D-63 "MY" Harry Whittington "You'll Die Next! " / Frederick C. Davis "Drag The Dark"
*D-71 "MY" John Creasey (as Gordon Ashe) "Drop Dead! " / Margaret Scherf "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" John A. Saxon "Liability Limited" / Sheldon Stark "Too Many Sinners"
*D-89 "MY" Stephen Marlowe "Turn Left For Murder" / Ruth Wilson and Alexander Wilson "Death Watch" (1955)
*D-101 "MY" Jack Karney "Knock 'Em Dead" / Hal Braham (as Mel Colton) "Point Of No Escape"
*D-109 "MY" Dale Clark "Mambo To Murder" / Sterling Noel "I See Red" (1955)
*D-115 "MY" Harry Whittington "One Got Away" / Cleve F. Adams "Shady Lady" (1955)
*D-123 "MY" Gil Brewer "The Squeeze" / Frank Diamond "Love Me To Death" (1955)
*D-129 "MY" Day Keene "The Dangling Carrot" / Norman C. Rosenthal "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" Gregory Jones "Prowl Cop" / Norman Herries "My Private Hangman" (1956)
*D-149 "MY" Ronald Kayser (as Dale Clark) "A Run For The Money" / Mark Macklin "The Thin Edge Of Mania" (1955)
*D-157 "MY" Louis Trimble "Stab In The Dark" / Jonathon Gant "Never Say No To A Killer"
*D-167 "MY" Milton K. Ozaki "Never Say Die" / John Creighton "Destroying Angel" (1956)
*D-170 "MY" Day Keene "Flight By Night" / Lawrence Goldman "Black Fire"]
*D-177 "MY" Stephen Marlowe (as C.H. Thames) "Violence Is Golden" / Robert Turner "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" Robert Colby "The Quaking Widow" / Dudley Dean Macgaughy (as Owen Dudley) "The Deep End"
*D-197 "MY" James Byron "TNT For Two" / Charles Weiser Frey (as Ferguson Findley) "Counterfeit Corpse" (1956)
*D-201 "MY" Harry Whittington "Across That River" / Nathaniel E. Jones "Saturday Mountain" (1957)
*D-203 "MY" William Grote "Cain's Girl Friend" / William L. Rohde "Uneasy Lies The Head" (1957)
*D-209 "MY" John Jake "A Night For Treason" / F. L. Wallace "Three Times A Victim" (1957)
*D-217 "MY" Bob McKnight "Downwind" / B. E. Lovell "A Rage To Kill" (1957)
*D-221 "MY" Gordon Ashe "You've Bet Your Life" / Robert Chavis "Terror Package" (1957)
*D-225 "MY" Kendell Foster Crossen (as M. E. Chaber) "A Lonely Walk" / Harry Giddings "Loser By A Head" (1957)
*D-231 "MY" Dudley Dean Macgaughy (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" Ken Lewis "Look Out Behind You" / John Creighton "Not So Evil As Eve" (1957)
*D-253 "MY" Bruce Cassiday "The Buried Motive" / Prentice Winchell (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 Michael Roscoe (as Mike Roscoe) "The Midnight Eye" (1958)
*D-279 "MY" J. Harvey Bond "Bye Bye, Baby! " / Bob McKnight "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" / Robert Kelston "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" Vic Rodell "Free-Lance Murder" / Louis King "Cornered" (1958)
*D-313 "MY" Samuel Krasney "Design For Dying" / J. M. Flynn "The Deadly Boodle" (1958)
*D-317 "MY" John Creighton "The Wayward Blonde" / Gerry Travis "The Big Bite" (1958)
*D-321 "MY" John Creighton "Trial By Perjury" / Louis Trimble "The Smell Of Trouble" (1958)
*D-329 "MY" Robert Emmett Mcdowell (as Emmett Mcdowell) "Stamped For Death" / Robert Emmett Mcdowell (as Emmett Mcdowell) "Three For The Gallows" (1958)
*D-333 "MY" Mike Brett "Scream Street" / John Creighton "Stranglehold" (1959)
*D-347 "MY" Louis Trimble "The Corpse Without A Country" / Harry Whittington "Play For Keeps" (1957)
*D-349 "MY" Leslie Frederick Brett (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" James P. Duff "Dangerous To Know" / Robert Colby "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" / Doug Warren "Scarlet Starlet" (1959)
*D-379 "MY" William Woody "Mistress Of Horror House" / Jay Flynn (as J. M. Flynn) "Drink With The Dead" (1959)
*D-387 "MY" Laine Fisher "Fare Prey" / Bob McKnight "The Bikini Bombshell" (1959)
*D-393 "MY" Joseph L. Chadwick (as John Creighton) "Evil Is The Night" / Robert A. Levey "Dictators Die Hard" (1959)
*D-401 "MY" Louis Trimble "Obit Deferred" / Tedd Thomey "I Want Out" (1959)
*D-409 "MY" Louis Trimble "Cargo For The Styx" / Jay Flynn (as J.M. Flynn) "Terror Tournament" (1959)
*D-415 "MY" Prentice Winchell (as Stewart Sterling) ""Fire On Fear Street" / "Dead Certain" (1960)
*D-419 "MY" Bernard Thielen "Open Season" / Bob McKnight "A Slice Of Death" (1958)
*D-425 "MY" Roberta Elizabeth Sebenthal (as Paul Kruger) "Dig Her A Grave" / Joseph L. Chadwick (as John Creighton) "A Half Interest In Murder" (1960)
*D-433 "MY" Jack Bradley "If Hate Could Kill" / Talmage Powell "The Smasher" (1960)
*D-439 "MY" Duane Decker "The Devil's Punchbowl" / Owen Dudley "Run If You Can" (1960)
*D-445 "MY" Robert Emmett Mcdowell (as Emmett Mcdowell) "Bloodline To Murder / "In At The Kill" (1960)
*D-447 "MY" Bob McKnight "Kiss The Babe Goodbye" / J. M. Flynn "The Hot Chariot" (1960)
*D-451 "MY" Steve Ward "Odds Against Linda" / Robert Martin "A Key To The Morgue" (1960)
*D-459 "MY" Howard J. Olmsted "The Hot Diary" / J. M. Flynn "Ring Around A Rogue" (1960)
*D-463 "MY" Prentice Winchell (as Stewart Sterling) "Dying Room Only" / "The Body In The Bed" (1960)
*D-469 "MY" Bob McKnight "Running Scared" / Talmage Powell "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" R. Arthur "Somebody's Walking Over My Grave" / John Miles Bickham (as John Miles) "Dally With A Deadly Doll" (1961)
*D-499 "MY" Frederick C. Davis "Night Drop] / "High Heel Homicide" (1961)
*D-505 "MY" Louis Trimble "The Surfside Caper" / Robert Colby "In A Vanishing Room" (1961)
*D-511 "MY" J. M. Flynn "One For The Death House" / Bob McKnight "Drop Dead, Please" (1961)
*D-515 "MY" Robert Colby "Kill Me A Fortune" / Prentice Winchell (as Stewart Sterling) "Five Alarm Funeral" (1961)

F Series

*F-102 "MY" Bob McKnight "The Flying Eye" / Clayton Fox "Never Forget, Never Forgive" (1961)
*F-107 "MY" Chester Warwick "My Pal, The Killer" / John Trinian "Scratch A Thief" (1961)
*F-111 "MY" J. M. Flynn "The Girl From Las Vegas" / Robert Martin "To Have And To Kill" (1960)
*F-115 "MY" John Creighton "The Blonde Cried Murder" / Fletcher Flora "Killing Cousins" (1961)
*F-121 "MY" Helen Nielson "Sing Me A Murder" / Helen Nielson "Woman Missing And Other Stories" (1961)
*F-125 "MY" J. M. Flynn "Deep Six" / Frank Diamond "The Widow Maker" (1961)
*F-130 "MY" J. M. Flynn "The Screaming Cargo" / James A. Howard "The Bullet-Proof Martyr" (1961)
*F-143 "MY" Bob McKnight "A Stone Around Her Neck" / Clayton Fox "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" / Bob McKnight "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" Ruth Fenisong "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" Elisabeth Sanxay "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" Elisabeth Sanxay "Holding Who's Afraid? " / "Widow's Mite" (1965)
*G-525 "MY" Dana Lyon "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" Dorothy Miles Disney "Unappointed Rounds" / "Mrs. Meeker's Money" (1965)
*G-530 "MY" Elisabeth Sanxay "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" Elisabeth Sanxay "Holding Kill Joy" / "Speak Of The Devil" (1965)
*G-535 "MY" Dana Lyon "The Lost One" / "The Frightened Child" (1965)
*G-539 "MY" Hilda Lawrence "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

* [http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/ACE.html Ace Image Library] . Contains images of most covers for the doubles in all genres, as well as many of the single titles.
* [http://www.bookscans.com/ 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.