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You'll Die Laughing TPB
Trade paperback. Bruce Elliott wrote this screwball murder mystery in 1945, and it has some twists and turns that are unusual for its time.
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I Stole $16,000,000 TPB
Trade paperback. Herbert Emerson Wilson was one of the world's greatest yeggs (safecrackers) and in 1956 he decided to bare all in this detailed autobiography. Learn a valuable trade (safecracking) while enjoying this book.
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The Amorous Intrigues and Adventures of Aaron Burr TPB
Trade paperback. This brilliant history of the sex life of Aaron Burr was written by 'Anonymous' in 1860 and it's refreshingly frank. It reveals what Gore Vidal was afraid to write about this enigmatic character.
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My Deadly Angel TPB
Trade paperback. Written by John Chelton in 1955, at the height of the cold war, this thriller reads like a cross between Charles Williams and John D. MacDonald.
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The Black Dark Murders TPB
Trade paperback. Milt Ozaki wrote this under the pseudonym, Robert O. Saber, in 1949. A cop goes underground on a college campus to root out a murderer who is preying on the coeds in the dark.
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The Ace of Spades Murder TPB
Trade paperback. Written in 1946, this is one of ten or so Screwball Circus novels, starring Angus MacWhorter and his Motorized Circus. Once again a truck has to navigate Ol' Twistibus, the windingest road in the world.
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The Affair of the Bottled Deuce TPB
Trade paperback. Never published in English until the Ramble House edition, this 1958 Holmesian potboiler is a classic 'locked room' mystery. It has a mapback by Gavin L. O'Keefe.
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The Amazing Web TPB
One of Harry Stephen Keeler's very first novels, it has one of the most preposterous courtroom trials in literary history. This is the first true webwork novel and must be read to be believed.
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The Barking Clock TPB
Trade paperback. This 1947 webwork mystery concerns a man on death row whose lawyer died right before the trial. It's a Tuddleton Trotter 'mathematical' mystery.
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Behind That Mask TPB
Trade paperback. In 1932 Harry Stephen Keeler came out with a huge novel which was split into two books: FINGER! FINGER! and BEHIND THAT MASK. This is the ending book that wraps the whole case up.
HSK 1932
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The Book with the Orange Leaves TPB
Trade paperback. One of the several Keeler novels that feature THE WAY OUT (book of ancient Chinese wisdom) this book was written in 1940 and is about an invisible egg and 'the handsomest police force in the world.'
HSK 1940
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The Bottle with the Green Wax Seal TPB
Trade paperback. This is the third volume in the BIG RIVER trilogy and features a mapback of the island where the three innocent men -- on one murderer -- are trapped by the flood. Published in
1939.
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The Box From Japan TPB
Trade Paperback in two columns. This 548-page juggernaut of a mystery was written in 1932 and takes place in a future of 1942 when the US was at war with Japan and Germany. 'The longest mystery ever written.'
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The Case of the Two-Headed Idiot TPB
Trade paperback. Never published in English until the Ramble House edition, this 1960 novel is one of the best of the Screwball Circus books. It has an updated introduction by Francis M. Nevins on the whole Circus saga.
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The Case of the Canny Killer TPB
Trade paperback. This is one of the three Keeler novels that take place in a steel mill. Written in 1944, it also has a terrific mapback of the Tippingdale Steel mill as drawn by Gavin L. O'Keefe.
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The Case of the Crazy Corpse TPB
Trade paperback. Never published in English until the Ramble House edition, this 1954 Screwball Circus novel has MacWhorter involved with a corpse made up of two bodies glued together -- one Chinese, one Negro. Go figure.
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The Case of the Flying Hands TPB
Trade paperback. Never published in English until the Ramble House edition, this has a mapback cover by Gavin O'Keefe. A Quiribus Brown (Hick Dick from the Sticks) novel, it has an introduction by Francis M. Nevins.
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The Case of the Ivory Arrow TPB
Trade paperback. Written in 1942, this was one of the dozen Keelers published by the notorious Phoenix Press, Keeler's last American hope for being published.
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The Case of the Jewelled Ragpicker TPB
Trade paperback. Yet another Screwball Circus novel about Angus WacWhorter and Old Twistibus, the windingest road in the world. Published in 1946 it has an updated introduction by Francis M. Nevins.
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The Case of the Lavender Gripsack TPB
Trade paperback. This 1940 novel is the fourth and final chapter of the SKULL IN THE BOX saga, consisting of Magic Eardrums, Crimson Box, Wooden Spectacles and Lavender Gripsack. Incredible courtroom drama.
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