(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...

(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 Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 470 pages or more of whodunit thrills. “The Black Gang” is our first grisly tale of murder and mayhem, by H. C. “Sapper” McNeile. Bulldog Drummond Returns! This double novel’s second tale features another great fictional detective in Louis Joseph Vance’s “Alias the Lone Wolf.”

THE BLACK RIDER (1954) Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer, Lionel Jeffries, Vincent Ball.  This B-film crime-quickie has minor elements of both horror and sci-fi.  Hanley is an effervescent reporter who tackles the story of a mysterious, hooded black rider who is seen a motorcycle near a crumbling castle on full moon nights.  Who is the rider and what is his strange purpose...?  

(1957) Mark Miller, Anita Thallaug, Lars Ekborg, Norma Sjoholm, Birgitta Ander. This is a really cool thriller filled with all kinds of neato stuff--a masterpiece of drive-in celluloid.  An American reporter heads to Sweden to do a feature story on Swedish nightlife.  After falling for a beautiful, morphine-addicted nightclub singer, he decides to do an expose on the rampant practice of corrupt showbiz managers who keep their showgirls on drugs to insure their services...  

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Mystery-crime writer Richard Deming paints a tale of wildly escalating corruption and atrocities in “Body for Sale.”  Blackmail, Sex, and Murder… Tom Cavanaugh never quarreled over the means to an end, as the end was worth grabbing for—even if his common sense told him NO!  So when he found out he was going to be fired, he played a blackmail card—a card that delivered...