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Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. This double novel’s first tale is “Dig Her a Grave” by whodunit veteran Paul Kruger. Jeannie Flemming was young, hard, and tough—but not quite tough enough! The day that newspaperman Denny Dolan stumbled over her very luscious naked body, she was also very definitely dead. When the lab boys finished, word was out that Jeannie had been knocked up. Needless to say, with a “generous” gal like that, there were plenty of unwilling candidates for this grisly paternity-murder rap! Denny Dolan, being a small-town newspaperman, had a pretty good idea as to who was responsible. But a “pretty good idea” and absolute proof are two different things. And to get proof, Denny could only go so far before he involved his best friend in a life-wrecking scandal! The second tale in this double novel is Craig Ellis’s (aka David V. Reed) police procedural thriller, “Murder on My Mind.” William Wace was a different breed of detective. He solved cases on theory, with surgical precision, using instincts that could never be taught at the Academy. Wace was quiet, methodical, careful, and—best of all—most criminals never saw him coming. The “Matinee Murder” at the State Theater was a case Wace knew was going to be a nasty one to solve. The murder had happened right on stage, in front of a live audience! The performance had been planned minute by minute, second by second—and so had this murder. The victim, Ralph Burgesse, had no shortage of enemies; and the further Wace dug into the case, the more it became entangled in lies and deception. But this was not unexpected as each suspect was in the theater business, and since the very nature of this lot was to “play pretend,” Wace knew he would have a tough time uncovering the truth behind the killer’s clever subterfuge—or would the killer get away with the greatest performance of their life?
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