THE ULTIMATE THRILL (1974) Barry Brown, Britt Ekland, Eric Braeden, John  Davis Chandler, Michael Blodgett.  In its own way, this is a pretty cool movie.  Braeden is amazing as a smooth-talking but ruthless businessman whose favorite thrill is tracking down and killing the men who have fallen for his beautiful wife, played by sex-kitten Britt Ekland...

(1947) James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason, Henry Oscar.  A great murder thriller that examines the fine line between brilliance and insanity.  Mason is excellent as a famed surgeon, unhappily married, who falls for another woman, unhappily married herself.  When a death occurs...

(1949) Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth, Richard Goolden, Sam Kydd. Dyall plays a bitter ex-con out to gain revenge on his former business partner who framed him.  Then he gets bad medical news—he has only six months to live...

THE VILLIER’S DIAMOND (1938, Updated 4-22-25) Edward Ashley, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Birch, Liam Gaffney, Bill Shine.  Early Evelyn Ankers vehicle about a thief who arrives at the home of wealthy businessman to collect a debt owed him for stealing the priceless Villiers Diamond for the businessman. However, when the thief arrives, the businessman...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-suspense double novels.  The first novel is Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt’s, “The Violent Ones.”  This double novel’s second tale is “High Heel Homicide” by Frederick C. Davis.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these two great titles.

Armchair Fiction presents Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 430 pages or more of whodunit thrills. Famed mystery writer William Le Queux’s “The Voice from the Void” is our first tale of mystery and murder. There was a dead body in the woods! Our second novel is another classic thriller, J. S. Fletcher’s “The Middle Temple Murder.” There had been a strange death in merry old London...

THE CHASE (1946, United Artists) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan. Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as overdressed psychos. PLUS:  SHOCK (1946, Fox) Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore. A woman goes into catatonic shock after seeing a brutal murder. When she comes to, she discovers her doctor is the killer!

(1958, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Horst Buchholz, Martin Held, Maria Perschy, Gert Fröbe, Inge Meysel, directed by Frank Wisbar.  Buchholz is released from prison six months early.  Waiting for him is a taxi, which takes him to his new employer, a corrupt journalist who soon coerces him into writing a phony article about German soldiers living in a bunker.  Things get sticky when...

(1934) Richard Bird, Lorna Hubbard, Geoffrey Wardwell, George Zucco, Francis L. Sullivan.  A young man quarrels with his Uncle about the girl he wants to marry.  The uncle threatens to disinherit him. The next morning the uncle turns up dead—his throat cut!  In an engaging courtroom scene, the nephew is tried for murder.  But if the nephew isn’t guilty, then who is the killer?...