Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. David V. Reed's "The Metal Monster Murders" is truly one of the most unique murder mysteries you will ever read. It crawled from the humid, fetid swamp of Jamaica Bay into the depths of refuse metal in a junkyard on the outskirts of New York. Where its life actually began (a new form of evolution or comic energy run amuck) was a mystery. But within the wasteland it would be born of twisted metal and festering discarded waste of the marshy swamp. This is where Jim Shilling and Elliot Hammond would discover the creature waiting, scheming, lurking…amongst the waste. A metal mutation that could and would kill anything that got in its way! At least that’s the story Elliot Hammond wanted the judge and jury to believe. Hammond faced the electric chair for the cold-blooded murder of Jim Shilling and three beautiful women. Was Elliot Hammond a criminal mastermind trying to pin a quadruple murder on a monster, or was there something more nefarious afoot, as only a madman could believe in a junkyard monstrosity that had somehow come to eerie, murderous life? And yet—
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