(1956) Beverly Garland, Marie Windsor, Mike Connors, Carole Mathews, Ed Nelson.  A policewoman poses as a gun moll to get in with prisoners breaking out.  Their escape leads to a fortune in diamonds in the wilds...

(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...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  The first thriller is Edward Ronns' great tale, “They All Ran Away”  This double novel’s second tale is a great tale of mystery & murder, “Backfire” by Floyd Mahannah... 

THE THIRD VISITOR (1951) Sonia Dresdel, Guy Middleton, Hubert Gregg, Colin Gordon, Karel Stepanek, Eleanor Summerfield.  Stepanek plays a snobbish gent living in the English countryside who is visited by various people, including a tough gangster and a mysterious female, all in the black of the night.  The next morning, Stepanek’s nearly unrecognizable body (bludgeoned horribly in the face) is found by the cops, headed by a persistent British inspector...

(1929) Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Margaret Wycherly, Helene Millard, Bela Lugosi; Richard Dix, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Lucien Littlefield.  The Thirteenth Chair is a good early-talkie whodunit... Seven Keys to Badpate is a well-done old dark hotel comedy-thriller...

(1953) Greta Gynt, John Van Eyssen, Hugh Sinclair, Sarah Lawson, Nicholas Hannen. This is a short and sweet British drawing room murder mystery.  It’s got a nice cast with two horror veterans, Gynt (Human Monster) and Van Eyssen (Horror of Dracula).  Relatives gather at their rich elderly Uncle’s estate to listen to details of his will and his demands of them...

PARTY GIRL (1930) Doug Fairbanks, Jr., Judith Barrie; WINGS OF ADVENTURE (1930) Rex Lease; MURDER AT MIDNIGHT (1931) Hale Hamilton; HOTEL CONTINENTAL (1932) Theodore Von Eltz.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Milton Ozaki is in fine form with his classic thriller, “A Time for Murder.”  A phone call early Monday morning was hardly anything exciting for Private Detective Max Keene; but when an attractive dame on the other end offered a great deal on a case of hard-to-find cheap booze, Keene could hardly refuse...

(1957, Upgraded 12/20/21) Robert Beatty, Betty McDowall, Lee Patterson, Vincent Winters, Robert Ayres, Alan Gifford, Sean Connery. A banker's son is accidently locked in an air-tight vault that's not set to open again for over 60 hours. The problem is that the boy has, at most, ten hours of oxygen left.  It's a life-and-death race against time to save the boy's life in this great British thriller...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “Too Hot to Handle” is a finely woven tale of mystery and murder from Frank B. Presnell.  “Her voice was taunting… She whipped her open palm against the side of my face.  It jarred my mouth open.  She slammed me with her other hand, and got ready to repeat with the first.”  That was Ed Barlow’s payoff when he searched luscious Linda Cameron’s apartment for stray playboys...

(1949 aka KILLER BAIT) Lizabeth Scott, Don Defoe, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy. Scott turns in one of the best “femme fatale” performances of all time as she portrays a scheming woman who eliminates everyone in her way as she tries to...

(1949 aka KILLER BAIT) Lizabeth Scott, Don Defoe, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy. Scott turns in one of the best “femme fatale” performances of all time as she portrays a scheming woman who eliminates everyone in her way as she porltrays a scheming woman who eliminates...