(1940) Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Greta Gynt, Charles Oliver, Gordon McLeod.  Radford and Wayne reprise their Lady Vanishes roles as Charters and Caldicott, a couple of well-seasoned yet naïve British world travelers.  By the random act of ordering certain items off a menu, they find themselves the unwitting carriers of a phonograph record filled secret Nazi info.  Of course the Nazis try everything possible to eliminate them...  

(1952) Mesiha Yelda, Turan Seyfioglu, Cahit Irgat.  This epic Turkish action thriller starts off with the main hero (Seyfioglu) meeting up with  Genghis Khan, whom he helps in his battle against an adversarial warlord.   The Khan is grateful for this (he saves the Khan’s life) and wants Seyfioglu’s allegiance, offering him a spot as one of his top lieutenants.  But Seyfioglu refuses and wanders through a series of swashbuckling adventures...

(1958) Boris Buzancic, Djurdja Ivezic, Antun Vrdoljak, Vanja Drach.  This highly unique thriller centers around two vehicles—a bus and a truck—that are speeding towards each other along a wet, narrow two-lane highway on a stormy night.  Right from the start we learn that the two vehicles will eventually collide because of the actions of a reckless driver.  It’s even pointed out which seats will spell death for their occupants...

(1964) Jim Davis, Don 'Red' Barry, Margo Woode, R. Wayland Williams, Tris Coffin.  An inexperienced army lieutenant grabs five volunteers for a dangerous mission from which they may not return.  Their task is simple:  take out the North Korean mortar position that's been pounding U.S. supply convoys and preventing them from reaching the troops at the front line...

(1930) Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Robert Armstrong, Hugh Herbert.  Wolheim plays a hard-nosed boss of a railroad yard who befriends a young drifter, who previously was a railroad man himself.  Soon things get dicey when the boss’ girl starts to fall for the handsome newcomer.  The high speed train sequences are pretty amazing for the time... 

(1949) Dorothea Paul, Betty Williams, Georgie Carey, Cedric Staples.  This obscure British sea-faring docu-drama is all about a lost infant found in a boat near a fishing village.  Having no way to trace his roots, he grows up in the village with his destiny seemingly out in the rolling waves of the ocean...

(1960) Noëlle Adam, Christian Marquand, Paul Guers.  Marquand plays a drifter with a huge gambling debt to pay.  To square things with his lenders he’s sent off on a dangerous journey.  Sadly, his sweetheart thinks he has deserted her and marries another!  After hearing of this he does the logical thing and joins the foreign legion...

(1960) Daliah Lavi, Gert Günther Hoffmann, Abraham Eisenberg, Uri Zohar.  A band of five adventurers get together on a treasure hunt.  Their quest is for a cache of priceless biblical scrolls, which—according to the legends—is supposed to be lying in the lost city Petra, located somewhere in ancient Jordan.  The challenge is that no man has supposedly ever survived the quest for this treasure...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Our first novel is “Find Eileen Hardin—Alive!” by top tier mystery author, Stephen Marlowe.  Eileen Hardin was barely eighteen, too young to be a call girl!  The second novel is another terrific murder mystery, “Murder on the Make” by Robert Martin.  It was a perfect “murder-for-money” setup...  

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Robert Moore Williams’ “Somebody Wants You Dead” is our first electric tale of murder and mayhem. This double novel’s second tale is another great thriller, “The Black Key” by M. Scott Michel.  It was a dream that held the secret to a killer’s identity...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Mike Brett’s “Scream Street” is our first great tale of crime and mystery.  Late one evening at a traffic light, Sam Dakkers witnessed a woman on the receiving end of a vicious attack…  This second novel is another gritty murder mystery, “Murder Makes the Corpse” by Sean Gregory. 

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Day Keene starts off this mystery combo with a real thriller, “My Flesh is Sweet.”  It was a frantic search that would soon lead to a trail of crime, intrigue, and bloody murder! This double novel’s second tale is a lively murder mystery, “The Mortgage Loan Murders” by Francis M. Deegan.  

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “Murder Has Many Faces” is a great thriller by top-notch mystery writer William O’Farrell.  “I’m looking for an Angel.”  That’s what Nick Winterburn told them as he followed a tangled web of murder and mystery deep into the blazing, unfriendly land known as Mexico...

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...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “Murder Clear, Track Fast” is a tremendous racetrack murder mystery by longtime mystery author, Judson Philips.  Saratoga was the place—the heart of thoroughbred racing in America.  Into this world came Don Channing, partner in a New York law firm.  His task—to solve the year-old murder of Jerome Fails...  

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Robert Kelston serves up a murder mystery in a graveyard with “Murder’s End.”   You had a cemetery full of corpses—but one of them was a fresh murder victim!  As the owner of a stately cemetery, Charlie King was a man who made dying a pleasure.  But when Charlie turned up murdered, finding his killer became a convoluted mystery...

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.  “Man Bait” is a terrific tale of steamy love, betrayal, crime, and murder; written by mystery-crime novelist, Jack Liston.  She had his hooks in me.  Her name was Marcia. She worked in a bar. She was scrawny but beautiful—and she knew how to control me.  It was through Marcia that I came to know Sam Brennerman, an acknowledged underworld big shot...