(1934) Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Francis L. Sullivan, Claud Allister, Joyce Kennedy. Hugh Drummond’s arch rival, Carl Peterson, is at it again. This time, disguised as a priest, he is trying to st

(1938, aka NOBODY HOME) Gordon Harker,Hartley Power,Rene Ray, Una O'COnner, Cyril Smith. A somewhat obscure British Edgar Wallace chiller. The ex-partner of a master criminal is protected by Scotland Yard. The criminal--a master of disguise--tracks him down and kills him anyway, in spite of the Yard's efforts.  Who really is...

(1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Karl-Arne Holmsten, Annalisa Ericson, Gunnel Broström, Bengt Brunskog, Nils Hallberg, Gio Petré, Björn Bjelfvenstam, Mona Malm.  Rider in Blue is part of a series of five detective thrillers directed by the incomparable Arne Mattsson and featuring Holmsten as detective John Hillman.  The plot here is pretty straightforward, while Hillman is tackling an assignment in London, his wife (Ericson) visits an Army riding school...

(1964, aka DER HEXER, Anamorphic Widescreen) Joachim Fuchsberger, Heinz Drache, Sophie Hardy, Carl Lange, Eddi Arent.  The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up...

(1944) Frank Jenks, Robin Raymond, H.B. Warner, Ray Walker. Reporters Jenks and Raymond try to get an interview with the head of a big foundation regarding a revolutionary new listening device. They soon end up at the lab of the real inventor, H. B. Warner...  

(1932) Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Hugh Williams, Donald Calthrop, Cedric Hardwicke.  Like any good train murder mystery, there is an assortment of interesting characters, each seemingly with something to hide...

RUN IF YOU CAN by Owen Dudley & THE SCENTED FLESH by Milton K. Ozaki           

(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...

THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER (1939) Nina McKinney, Jack Carter; BRONZE BUCKAROO (1939) Herb Jeffreys, Spencer Williams; GANG WAR (1940) Ralph Cooper, Gladys Snyder. SON OF INGAGI (1940) Zach Williams, Laura Bowman; Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

(1951) John Bentley, Carol Marsh, Roddy Rogers.  The Toff was a well-known, upper crust British detective character who appeared in magazines, books, and films, dating back to the early 1930s.  In this, his first motion appearance, he is well-played by John Bentley, who played him in both Toff films.  In this fast-moving mystery, a man walks out of a nightclub onto a darkened street.  Moments later he is knifed in the back...

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. 

(1917) Lon Chaney, Franklyn Farnum, Edith Johnson, Sam DeGrasse. Lon plays a bank cashier who discovers embezzling and confronts the criminals with the evidence. A bizarre twist of events follows an

Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Directed by Fritz Lang.  Considered one of the greatest pieces of film noir cinema ever made.  Robinson, in one of his best performances, plays Chris Cross, a cashier who's just been given his gold watch at retirement. As fate would have it, he runs into a gorgeous woman (Fontaine) on the way home who soon has him wrapped around her finger...

 (1954) Hazel Court, Griffith Jones, Zena Marshall, Robert Percival.  What a great surprise this nifty (nifty is the word) British murder mystery turned out to be.  Insurance investigator Griffin Jones is duped by a gorgeous blonde and framed for murdering the wife of a rich businessman...

(1969, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Joachim Fuchsberger, Konrad Georg, Horst Tappert, Arthur Richelmann, Karin Hübner.  This film plays, in places, like an Edgar Wallace film; in other places like a seedy JD movie filled with troubled youths.  At a boarding school for boys a firebrand student goes missing.  It’s theorized he may have met with foul play.  When his rich father also goes missing...