(1972) George Montgomery, Terry Moore, Gay Perkins, Cyril Poiter, Bill Kelly.  This is a wonderful, albeit forgotten, southern drive-in thriller.  Montgomery, in one of his last starring roles, plays a down and out race car driver with a passion for speed.  With his career in shambles, he ends up driving for a drug ring because there’s no police car that can catch him.    

(1934) Cedric Hardwicke, Conrad Veidt, Mary Ellis, John Stuart, Jeanne Stuart.  This is a very engaging murder drama.  Mary Ellis is a proper British wife who’s fallen under the spell of a suave yet unscrupulous Egyptian, wonderfully portrayed by Veidt.  Desiring to be free of the man she no longer loves, Ellis and Veidt plot to slowly poison her husband...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Saratoga Mantrap” by Dexter St. Claire. The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, “Classification: Homicide”  by another well-known mystery writer, Jonathan Craig. 

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...

(1962) Tony Wright, Sonja Ziemann, Helmud Schmidt.   Wright is a wayward young mand who’s on the lam from a gang of thugs.  He soon meets up with a blind woman.  Together they come up with a double indemnity insurance scam, which they may or may not have the brains to pull off...

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...

(1968) Lionel Stander, Gordon Mitchell, Gastone Moschin, Erika Blanc, Terry-Thomas, Adolfo Celi, Gordon Mitchell.  If you like caper films, this is a good one, similar to Who’s Minding the Mint.  A group of prisoners execute a brilliant plan of escaping from prison to commit an elaborate robbery, but then return to their cells before anyone knows they’re missing...

(1962) David Sumner, Susan Travers, James Hayter, John Arnatt, Jack Watson, Renee Houston.  A short but sweet thriller about an ex-con who becomes the prime suspect after a string of horrible slayings occur.  The murders always occur under a full moon and the victims are always young blondes.  The final scene in a fog-enshrouded wooded are between Sumner and Travers is very well done.  Is he the killer…or isn’t he?  Aka Out of the Fog.  16mm.  

(1953) Sid James, Bonar Colleano, Simone Silva, Andrew James, Ted Ray, written and directed by John Gilling.  James plays an Italian racketeer on the run in London.  He runs into a scoop-seeking, hard-drinking reporter.  The reporter (Colleano) helps him hide out in a shut-up theater and in return he gets the gangster’s life story.  A little boy, who is convinced they’re secret agents, brings them food while they’re in hiding.  The coppers are soon onto them...

(1950) John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Jack Livesay, Andrew Leigh, Dino Galvani, Barbara Couper.  A cool Temple murder mystery.  A brilliant scientist is kid-napped by two gunmen.  A criminal mastermind called “Zed” wants the scientist’s new formula for a laser-powered atomic missile defense system.  The scientist’s daughter goes to Paul Temple to enlist his aid in finding her father.  Temple and his wife are soon plunging across the British countryside, looking for clues...

(1951) Jack LaRue, Linden Travers, Lili Molnar, Hugh McDermott, Walter Crisham. One great gangster film!  Travers is a gorgeous society dame who wants to get away from it all.  She’s kidnapped by two small-time thugs. LaRue gives the best portrayal of his life as a bigtime gangster who, along with his Ma-Barkerish mother, owns the Black Dice Club, a classy spot filled with rich suckers, showgirls, and illicit types. 

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Lustful Ape” by well-known mystery writer, Bruno Fisher. This double novel’s second tale is a terrific murder thriller, “Kiss the Babe Goodbye” by another well-known mystery writer, Bob McKnight.  

Armchair Fiction presents extra large illustrated editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Art Studio Murders” by master mystery writer, Edward Ronns. The second novel is “The Case of Jenny Brice” by a very well-known mystery writer of the early twentieth century, Mary Roberts Rinehart. 

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Wild Oats” by veteran crime writer Harry Whittington. This double novel’s second tale is a terrific murder thriller, “Make Way For Murder” by another well-known mystery writer, A. A. Marcus. 

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Everybody’s Watching Me” by well-known murder, mystery, and suspense writer Mickey Spillane.  o get it from him.  So Joe Boyle had to play the dangerous game of always having to be one quick step ahead of the mob.  The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, "A Bullet for Cinderella" by another well-known mystery writer, John D, MacDonald. 

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Love Me and Die!” by veteran mystery writer Day Keene. This double novel’s second tale is a terrific murder thriller, “You’ll Get Yours” by another well-known mystery writer, Thomas Wills. 

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Dangerous Lady” by Octavus Roy Cohen. The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, “One Hour Late” by another well-known mystery writer, William O’Farrell. 

(1950) Eva Henning, Ulf Palme, Birgit Tenbroth, Anders Ek, Marianne Lofgren.  A beautiful but troubled young woman commits suicide.  Her personal effects are inherited by the caretaker in the house she lived in. He in turn gives the information of her death over to a writer who decides, in a very detective-like manner, to solve the mystery of her suicide...