IN THE MONEY (1933) Skeets Gallagher, Lois Wilson; MURDER ON THE CAMPUS (1934) Charles Starrett, Edward Van Sloan;  ELLIS ISLAND (1936) Donald Cook, Peggy Shannon; GIRL WHO CAME BACK (1935) Shirley Grey, Sidney Blackmer.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

THE LADY FROM NOWHERE (1931) Alice Day, John Holland; TWIN HUSBANDS (1933) John Miljan; SONS OF STEEL (1934) Charles Starrett, Polly Ann Young.  RED LIGHTS AHEAD (1936) Andy Clyde.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

(1929, Paramount) Wallace Beery, Warner Oland, Florence Vidor, Jack Oakie, Jack McHugh, Directed by William Wellman.  After witnessing a Chinatown murder, Vidor, a pretty socialite, gets a sudden crush on a Chinatown gang leader, played by Beery...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Heinz Drache, Elga Anderson, Ralf Wolter, Sabine Sesselmann. Drache is a suave private eye.  He’ss dumped into the middle of a murder mystery when a woman is shot dead in his office with his own gun...

(1953) Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Sheila Burrell, Richard Wattis, Joan Sims.  In this enjoyable anthology of three episodes of Colonel March of Scotland Yard, Karloff plays the smooth-talking title character.  He’s faced with three seemingly weird cases...

A SCREAM IN THE NIGHT (1935) Lon Chaney, Zara Tazil; SOCIAL ERROR (1935) David Sharpe, Gertrude Messinger; SHADOW OF SILK LENNOX (1935) Lon Chaney, Jack Mulhall; GHOST TOWN (1936) Harry Carey.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

THE CORPSE IN THE PICTURE WINDOW by Bruce Cassiday & THERE’S DEATH IN THE HEIR by Larry Holden 

(1930, Columbia) Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Boris Karloff, Constance Cummings, DeWitt Jennings.  Huston is brilliant as a hard-nosed prison warden.  His daughter, Cummings, falls in love with a floundering inmate played by Holmes. To complicate matters, Holmes witnesses the murder of another inmate who was killed for being a squealer...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “The Crooked Circle” is a gritty tale of suicide and murder; authored by crime/mystery novelist Manning Lee Stokes.  A hundred grand could tempt anyone.  Private investigator Steve Paget had always thought he would do anything for money, but nothing quite as vile and low-down as Jefferson Torrance’s proposition had ever been offered to him before...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “The Crooked City” is a taut, nail-biting novel of corruption and greed by Robert Kyle.  “MacBAIN CAUGHT, JAILED IN QUINN MURDER—Professional Cop’s Wife in Love Triangle”  That was what the headlines read. It was a tough spot for a not-so-tough man—James MacBain. MacBain lived in an asphalt tabernacle for prostitutes, dope pushers, and murderers...

CROSS-UP (1958) Larry Parks, Constance Smith, Lisa Daniely, Donald Stewart. On the first night of his London assignment, news agency reporter Parks becomes heavily involved with a mysterious woman (Daniely). The affair ends when she is shot as they grapple for a gun she has pulled.  But this is only the beginning of Parks’ troubles, especially considering the dead woman worked for a criminal organization...

(1964, Updated 10/25/21) Harold Lieb, Judith Dornys, Rudolf Forster, Werner Peters, Klaus Kinski, Vera Tschechowa, Eddi Arent. The aged owner of an old gambling casino dies, making a young girl heir to his amassed fortune that lies hidden in a secret tomb. Shady underworld members become the victims of both greed and the dread secret of the...