(1946) Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Loretta Young, Richard Long, Philip Merivale.  Robinson is excellent as the soft-spoken investigator, Mr. Wilson of the War Crimes Commission.  He is searching for the notorious Franz Kindler, one of the masterminds of the Holocaust, who is hiding, incognito, in plain sight.  Robinson releases one of Kindler's former cronies in an effort to track down his target, but he is murdered before he...

(1952) Tod Slaughter, Patrick Barr, Tucker McGuire, Ingeborg von Kusserow.  Tod is up to his nefarious plans once again as he plans an elaborate scheme for blackmail.  Barr plays the detective who’s out to bring him to justice.  There’s murder and mayhem aplenty in this curious film.  Tod has some priceless bits of dialogue, complimented here and there with his maniacal laughter...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “Murder Has Many Faces” is a great thriller by top-notch mystery writer William O’Farrell.  “I’m looking for an Angel.”  That’s what Nick Winterburn told them as he followed a tangled web of murder and mystery deep into the blazing, unfriendly land known as Mexico...

NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH (1948) Jack LaRue, Linden Travers, Lili Molnar, Hugh McDermott. A top gangster film!  Travers is a dazzling society dame who is kidnapped by two thugs. LaRue is superb as a mobster who owns the Black Dice Club, a classy spot filled with rich suckers, showgirls, and crooks. DOUBLE CONFESSION (1950) Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre. Top British noir!  After his wife is slain in a seaside cottage, Farr, also a suspect, threatens to pin the crime on his wife’s lover...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Day Keene starts off this mystery combo with a real thriller, “My Flesh is Sweet.”  It was a frantic search that would soon lead to a trail of crime, intrigue, and bloody murder! This double novel’s second tale is a lively murder mystery, “The Mortgage Loan Murders” by Francis M. Deegan.  

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Mike Brett’s “Scream Street” is our first great tale of crime and mystery.  Late one evening at a traffic light, Sam Dakkers witnessed a woman on the receiving end of a vicious attack…  This second novel is another gritty murder mystery, “Murder Makes the Corpse” by Sean Gregory. 

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Robert Moore Williams’ “Somebody Wants You Dead” is our first electric tale of murder and mayhem. This double novel’s second tale is another great thriller, “The Black Key” by M. Scott Michel.  It was a dream that held the secret to a killer’s identity...

(1967) Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin, Roberto Bisacco.  One of the hippest, most stylish films of the ‘60s—no exaggeration.  Jean-Louis finds the corpse of a blackmailing nightclub manager in his office—blood on the floor.  In the room is Ewa, who claims innocence, even though her deceased father was the blackmail victim.  Together they go...

(1960) Joel Rinne, Elina Pohjanpää, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela, Leo Riuttu. This is a good old-fashioned closed room murder mystery.  The world famous Lieutenant Palmu is brought in to investigate when a much-despised millionaire playboy is found dead in his interior pool—murdered.  Who is the killer?  There are some nice tongue-in-cheek moments thrown into this well-made murder thriller...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Robert Kelston serves up a murder mystery in a graveyard with “Murder’s End.”   You had a cemetery full of corpses—but one of them was a fresh murder victim!  As the owner of a stately cemetery, Charlie King was a man who made dying a pleasure.  But when Charlie turned up murdered, finding his killer became a convoluted mystery...

(1938) Erich von Stroheim, Michel Simon, Armand Bernard, Aimé Clariond, Serge Grave.  This is another forgotten von Stroheim gem.  A group of college boys form a secret society with an ultimate plan of going to America.  There’s a mystery afoot, though, when people start disappearing.  Things take a turn for the worse when an art professor turns up dead—murdered!  

(1935, Mascot) Victor Jory, Evelyn Venable, Ralph Forbes, Esther Ralston.  A group of people become entangled in a web of intrigue on board a super-duper streamline passenger train, streaking across the countryside.  On board are a crook, a stage director, an actress and a number of other characters...  

(1935) Henry Kendall, Eve Gray, Jeanne Stuart, Garry Marsh, Wally Patch. A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangster’s place, he then causes an actress to...

(1979) Toshiyuki Nishida, Isao Natsuyagi, Haruko Wanibuchi, Tomoko Saitô.  This is a really well-made Japanese “locked room” murder mystery set in the 1930s.  The famous Nipponese detective Kindaichi is called in to investigate a number of horrible slayings.  His investigations soon point the finger at members of a wealthy family—a family that, as it turns out, has many dark secrets to hide...

(1962) Liz Fraser, Kenneth Griffith, Peter Reynolds, Tony Wickert, David Hemmings. Two small-time blackmail artists (a man and woman) run afoul of a brutal gangster, who  stabs the man to death in his apartment as a warning for others to stay clear of his territory.  But when the woman shows up with an intended victim (a drunken student), the body is discovered and the student, in a drunken stupor, agrees to dispose of it...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Our first novel is “Find Eileen Hardin—Alive!” by top tier mystery author, Stephen Marlowe.  Eileen Hardin was barely eighteen, too young to be a call girl!  The second novel is another terrific murder mystery, “Murder on the Make” by Robert Martin.  It was a perfect “murder-for-money” setup...  

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Sterling Noel’s “Empire of Evil” is one of the best mystery-crime thrillers dealing with the Mafia that you’ll ever come across.  It was the bloody path to murder.  This is the story of Daniel Andradi, a young executive in America’s most terrible industry—crime. This is the rise of a Mafioso, don of the Brotherhood of Evil, wielder of power beyond belief...