THE GOLD EXPRESS (1955) Vernon Gray, Ann Walford, May Hallatt, Patrick Boxill, Ivy St. Helier, John Serret.  Gray plays a handsome reporter who, along with his new bride, are about to embark on their honeymoon when he is assigned to cover a story on express train loaded with a fortune in gold.  Unknown to all is that there are crooks on board with a devious plot to...

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. Heralded whodunit author Max Murray lays down a gripping tale of murder and suspense with, “Good Luck to the Corpse.”   Red was his lucky color!  The little man scuttled up to the roulette table.  He looked shrunken and sick. He placed twenty thousand on red.  The croupier spun the wheel, then dropped the little white ball.  It raced around the wheel, slowed, and dropped—red...

(1968, Upgraded 10/31/21) Horst Tapper, Uschi Glas, Uwe Friedrichsen, Herbert Fux, Hubert von Meyerinck. A killer gorilla stalks the dark streets of London, murdering unsuspecting victims. All the victims have agreed to donate their money to a charitable organization in the event of...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Great Airport Mystery,” Frank and Joe Hardy are framed for a mail robbery by a disgruntled pilot. After being bailed out of jail they set out to clear their names. There’s lots of vintage Hardy Boys excitement along the way and the boys soon stumble upon a gang’s elaborate plan for an airmail robbery. Can they stop it in time?...

(1930, Upgraded 4/3/21) Eric Von Stroheim, Betty Compson, Don Douglas. Strange drama about a crazed ventriloquist and ;his dummy, "Otto," which exudes a strange hold over him. Von Stroheim is SUCH an SOB. Lots of big staged musicical numbers that reek of nostalgia...

Armchair Fiction presents Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 440 pages or more of whodunit thrills. “The Green Rust” by all time great mystery writer Edgar Wallace is our first classic story. The second tale is another great Edgar Wallace thriller, “The Clue of the Twisted Candle.”

(1929) William Powell, Florence Eldridge, Ullrich Haupt, Jean Arthur; Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young. Here are two solid Philo Vance mysteries for your enjoyment. Disc one:  The Greene Murder Case features a wealthy but disreputable family gathering for its once a year get-together at their spooky ancestral castle... Disc two: In The Bishop Murder Case, the corpse of a man called "Cock Robin" turns up on an archery range with an arrow through his heart...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Guilty Bystander” by hard-boiled expert Mike Brett.  The second novel is a the suspenseful "Blood of My Brotehr," by Stephen Marlowe...

(1940, Universal) Heather Angel, John “Dusty” King, Constance Collier, Walter Catlett, Tom Dugan.  Angel is terrific as a beautiful schoolteacher who, bored with life, takes off on an adventure.  Unfortunately, it lands her into a conversation with a gangster; and when he gets a little too friendly, she takes off in his car.  Unknown to her, there’s a dead body in the trunk...

(1952) John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, John Robinson, Valentine Dyall, Lockwood West.  Bentley is the Toff, a “Saint” style detective who falls upon a sinister plot while on a train.  It seems that a criminal known as “the Hammer” is looking to steal a secret formula for a new lightweight metal alloy that’s tougher than steel...

(1947) John Turnbull, Beatrice Campbell, Hylton Allen, Anthony Baird.  This is an odd little mystery with a very old-timey music score.  A movie usherette is hung out to dry (murdered!) following a fling with the theater manager.  Who is the killer?  That’s what...

(1929) Jameson Thomas, Jean Colin, Henry Victor, Jack Raine. This Forgotten Horrors style thriller is about the son of a murdered count who goes on a party cruise. Someone tries to kill him, but the