Armchair Fiction presents Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 440 pages or more of whodunit thrills. “The Green Rust” by all time great mystery writer Edgar Wallace is our first classic story. The second tale is another great Edgar Wallace thriller, “The Clue of the Twisted Candle.”

(1964, Upgraded 12/31/20) Hansjorg Felmy, Ann Smyrner, Hans Nielson, Walter Rilla, Wolfgang Lukschy, Heinz Engelmann. Mystery at the track! A well-known thoroughbred is slain by a rival horse owner. Soon jockeys are being murdered by a mysterious...

(1966, Upgraded 12/1/21, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Charles Regnier, Ady Berber, Kai Fischer, Ellen Schwiers, Hans Reiser, Christa Linder, Birgit Bergen. Five people have stolen a priceless, legendary emerald from a religious temple. One of them is slain by an unknown killer. The police search desperately for...

(1938, Aka QUEEN OF CRIME) Jack Hulbert, Genevieve Tobin, Noel Madison, Francis Sullivan, Arthur Wonter. In this great Edgar Wallace thriller, Hulbert is a slick policeman out to nab Tobin and her criminal gang. Watch for the great scene where her gang robs a bank in the black of the night only to find the building encircled by police. Later, the gang heists a train loaded with gold bullion. When the police pursue, the train seemingly vanishes...

(1971, Upgraded 11/1/21) Hansjorg Felmy, Uschi Glas, Werner Peters, Gunther Stoll.  When an Australian woman arrives in London, she discovers her sister is involved with a ruthess heroin smuggling gang. Complicating matters is that the gang itself is being targeted by an unknown assailant who shoots his victims dead with a bullet in the head...

(1968, aka THE ZOMBIE WALKS) Joachim Fuchsberger, Siw Mattson, Wolfgang Kieling, Pinkas Braun.  Another great German-made Constantin Films Edgar Wallace chiller.  When a laughing corpse comes back to life to kill its heirs, Scotland Yard is called in. The “undead” killer is dressed up in a skeleton outfit and kills...

(1969, Upgraded 10/31/21) Horst Tappert, Karin Huebner, Fritz Wepper, Ilse Page, Stefan Behrens, Hubert von Meyerinck, Fritz Wepper, Ewa Strömberg.  Scotland Yard detective investigates a series of drug-related murders of gangsters and girls. It starts with a man who is found dead in a London hotel room—a knife stuck in his chest and a glass eye in his...

(1965, Upgraded 10/25/21) Karin Dor, Siegfried Lowitz, Harald Leipnitz, Ilse Steppat, Eddi Arent. The setting is a girls’ school where a hooded killer, “the Monk,” lashes his victims to death with a whip. Scotland Yard tries to track him down, but more slayings occur before they can find the killer. The final unmasking scene...

(1963, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Joachim Fuchsberger, Pinkas Braun, Brigitte Grothum. There’s a big fight over an ancient Oriental talisman. It’s wanted by a fanatical Chinese movement that seeks world domination. Lots of crazed...

(1960, Upgraded 10/15/21) Renate Ewert, Klauss Wussow, Eddi Arent, Karl-Georg Saebisch, Thomas Alder, Edith Mill. A strange, red circle appears on the neck of a man saved from the guillotine. What is its mysterious meaning? Tragically, it turns out turns out to be something of a family curse, as each generation thereafter bears the same sign, which in turn leads to...

(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...

(1964, Upgraded 10/19/21) Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Dor, Richard Haubler, Eddi Arent. A robbery involving gold and bank notes eventually leads to the blackmail of a member of Parlament who has a shady past.  But there is a razor-wielding killer afoot, too!  It all leads to a mysterious estate and a striptease nightclub where bodies begin to pile up...

(1963) Karin Dor, Joachim Fuchsberger, Horst Frank, Werner Peters, Paul Klinger. One of the most sought-after Edgar Wallace-style  films. A man dies in a blazing car crash.  His widow comes under suspicion by a life insurance company, which had just raised the payout in the event of his death.  But there is something far more sinister afoot, and murder soon...

(1968, Upgrade 10/31/21) Heinz Drache, Karin Baal, Horst Tappert, Siegfried Schurenberg, Agnes Windeck. Beautiful Karin Baal inherits the mysterious old Blackwood castle. She is pressured to sell the place, but refuses. Exacerbating the situation is the fact that dead bodies are starting to pile up, their flesh torn from attacks by a...

(1962, Upgraded 10/25/21) Christopher Lee, Marisa Mell, Adrian Hoven, Pinkas Braun, Christiane Nielsen, Klaus Kinski, Eddi Arent. A mysterious criminal gang relocates to jolly old London.  Their plan?  To extort as much money as they can from various British elders.  There's murder involved...

(1959, Upgraded 10/15/21) Carl Lange, Joachim Fuchsberger, Siegfried Lowitz, Eddi Arent. A young American detective becomes involved in a series of ghastly crimes. The only clue to be found is the mysterious seal of the White Frog. Some of the murder sequences in this film are...

(1960, Upgraded 12/31/20) Karin Dor, Joachim Fuchsberger, Elizabeth Flickenschildt, Fritz Rasp, Eddi Arent. A creepy German-made Wallace thriller about the ghost of a hanged man who returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die...

(1938 aka THE PHANTOM STRIKES, Upgraded 11/28/21) Sonnie Hale, Wilfred Lawson, Louise Henry. A fairly obscure Edgar Wallace chiller. The ex-partner of a master criminal is protected by the police after his life is threatened. The criminal--a master of disguise--tracks down and kills him...