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Fender Tucker
Since 1999 Ramble House has brought you affordable editions of old books that can usually be found only as expensive 'collectible' items. We have a list of great old authors -- and a few middle-aged ones -- we call our 'Loon Sanctuary'. Perhaps you'd like to be a loon?
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Evidence in Blue
Hardcover. The ‘Duke of York’ Hotel in Westingborough is a respectable establishment run by the stalwart ‘Little’ Nell; ‘respectable,’ that is, until one of the guests is discovered dead in his room, stabbed through the heart! Local Superintendent Wadden is called in to investigate, and it’s not long before he assigns Inspector Jerry Head to delve deeper into the mystery.
Separately, Mr. Ralph Enthwaite of Carden is importuning Wadden and Head to quit their duties and attend to him, as some kind of disaster has befallen him — though he won’t inform them what that disaster is!
'Evidence in Blue' was first published in London in 1938, and in the United States as 'The Man in Grey', and Ramble House is pleased to bring this book back into print for the first time in 70 years.
Hardcover Print: $32.99
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The Talkative Policeman
Hardcover. Rupert Penny wrote this longer-than-usual impossible mystery in 1937. It’s full of maps, charts and highly formatted text, and Ramble House is proud to present it as a facsimile book. Its 330 pages will transport you to the English countryside of the mid-30s as Inspector Beale and his ever-present friend Tony Purdon tackle the murder of a clergyman who had the misfortune of having his head bashed in by person or persons unknown. The author states that by the time you read the first 33 chapters you will have all the information you need to name the murderer and reconstruct the crime. Are you up to the challenge?
Hardcover Print: $39.99
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Victims & Villains
Hardcover. This book began as a collection of projects by some University of Melbourne students involving dolls made up to look like victims and villains from Arthur Conan Doyle's books about Sherlock Holmes. Then Derham Groves, the spearheader of the project, injected some architecture and some students added some Sherlockiana lore and now it's an intriguing romp through the Holmes personae dramatis with a little gore and a lot of imagination. Who knew that old man Doyle had so much blood in him?
Hardcover Print: $30.00
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The Dumpling
Hardcover. It all began as a simple assignment for magazine writer Max Rissler: he was to go to an opium den and write an article describing in detail what it was like. What could go wrong?
Written in a surprisingly modern style back in 1906, this novel of mystery, love and politics is entertaining and instructive. The battle between management and labor has rarely been illustrated as well as in this book, and once you meet the “criminal” known as the Dumpling, who looks and acts just like Napoleon, you’ll never see the question in black and white terms again. This was an important book a century ago, and it’s just as relevant today.
Hardcover Print: $29.99
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The Perjured Alibi
Hardcover. When Dennis Tracy visits his old friend Kenneth Darent he isn’t prepared for what he finds — a drunk who is in love with Margorie Browne, a beautiful girl who just happens to be the fiancee of the richest man in town! So when Tracy discovers that Darent has no alibi for the time when the rich man is murdered, he and Margorie come up with an alibi for him, an alibi that puts them in danger of prison — or worse! Perjury has never been so fun — or deadly.
Hardcover Print: $32.99
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The Case of the Transparent Nude
Hardcover. Helmon Hobersteed, Chief of Homicide, is having a bad day. His wife told him he was getting on in years and a young girl had just called him an “old man”. Then he gets a call about the apparent death of a beautiful woman in a steam cabinet who has a picture of Helmon taped on her wall — like a pin-up! But when Hobersteed goes to investigate the death of someone who obviously idolized him, he finds her ravishing head sticking out the top of the cabinet and her painted toes below — but gets the shock of his life when he opens the cabinet. No body! It just isn’t Helmon’s day. Instead, it’s a novel only Harry Stephen Keeler could have written!
Hardcover Print: $29.99
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The Case of the Crazy Corpse
Hardcover. 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.
Hardcover Print: $29.99
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Hell Fire
Hardcover. Dorn is a retired arson cop and Krager is a working arsonist. But when a mysterious "job" comes along that involves assassinating a family of Neo-Nazis they know that both of them need to pool their talents. In fact, they even need to enlist a disturbing hooker who was a former Neo-Nazi service wench if this caper isn't going to blow up in their craggy faces. Jack Moskovitz, veteran of the censorship wars of the 60s and 70s, has written a neo-noir with lots of fast, terse action, and even faster, terser dialog. No time to mess around when Nazi strippers are on stage. This is the first of what Ramble House hopes are many of Jack Moskovitz' edgy thrillers.
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Hardcover Print: $34.99
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The Case of the Little Green Men
Hardcover. 'The Case of the Little Green Men' was the first novel of Mack Reynolds’s long and distinguished career. Since its publication in 1951 it has become a rare and much sought-after collectible. Surinam Turtle Press is proud to bring this novel to a new generation of readers. This edition features an Introduction by the author’s son, Emil Reynolds, and an Afterword by Earl Kemp.
Hardcover Print: $29.99
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Murder in Shawnee
Hardcover. 'Murder In Shawnee' collects John Douglas’ two Detective Harter mysteries, 'Shawnee Alley Fire' and 'Haunts.' Shawnee may look like a small mountain city where nothing much takes place, but, as Edward Harter knows, anything can happen. As Harter works to solve his baffling cases, you’ll walk the streets and ride the back roads with him. You’ll visit all sorts of people and places in a recession-hit railroading city in the Alleghenies — a city inspired by Cumberland, Maryland, and the surrounding region of western Maryland, northeast West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania.
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Hardcover Print: $39.99
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Sin Master
Hardcover. SIN MASTER is the latest double book from Jim Harmon, who wrote so many great provocative novels in the 60s. It contains every word of the original publications of HARLOT MASTER (1961) and SIN UNLIMITED (1962) in one volume. The stories are stark and personal and reveal a world that was breaking away from the conformity of the 50s but still suffered from the decade’s censorship laws.
Hardcover Print: $29.99
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A Roland Daniel Double
Hardcover. American readers will rarely see these two thrillers from the 30s by Britain's Roland Daniel. THE SIGNAL (1933) begins with a rich man receiving in the mail five beans (!) just before he's dispatched with a pistol by an unknown hand. Sounds like something Harry Stephen Keeler might have opined. And Fu Manchu has nothing on the inscrutable and titular Wu Fang, whose sordid machinations threaten a young American woman, her Secret Service beau, his cockney sidekick and Superintendent Bill Saville of the Yard. The wily celestial, introduced in 1934, has picked up some new tortures by 1937, and can't wait to try them on the whole crowd.
Hardcover Print: $33.00
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Policeman in Armour
Hardcover. In Policeman in Armour, Rupert Penny once again guides you through the evidence up to a certain point, then turns on you and says: “Now you ought to know who murdered the man, and how, and why.” But do you know? Test your brains and see. You will find it an enthralling-game. In this story, Sir Raymond Everett, ex-judge, is murdered in his mansion Heath Approach, and there is no shortage of suspects for Chief-Inspector Beale of Scotland Yard to interrogate and consider. Assisted as always by his friend and fellow-sleuth Tony Purdon, as well as Detective-sergeant ‘Horsey’ Matthews, also of the Yard, and the local constabulary, Beale finds this case one of the most challenging of his career.
Hardcover Print: $32.99
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The Wrong Verdict
Hardcover. Vera Pollard’s father was unjustly convicted of murder and sent to prison, and years later, when she became an assistant to a Chinese mentalist named Lian Foo, he was released. Thus began a series of events that threatened to send another innocent man, Vera’s fiancé Ronald Watson, to the gallows. Walter S. Masterman, author of numerous mysteries that spirit the reader into a world of opium, séances and murder, wrote this in 1938, at the height of his literary powers. It is the latest in the Masterman series from Ramble House, a novel of suspense that has been forgotten too long.
Hardcover Print: $32.99
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Murder in Black & White
Hardcover. When architect / amateur artist Sam Horder takes a vacation at Chateau St. Andre he has no idea that the game of tennis — not lawn tennis — would play such a major role in his future. But when a tennis player is shot dead and the gunshot is found to be from an impossible angle — near the Tower Pantaloon — Horder finds himself embroiled in a mystery that threatens more victims, including Sam himself. He’ll have to use all of his architectural and artistic skills to merely stay alive. This classic Mediterranean whodunnit from 1931 features the artwork of Austin Blomfield and is in print again for the first time in decades.
Hardcover Print: $32.00
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Sweet Poison
Hardcover. Murder comes slowly to prep school Anstey Court, but when a young student is poisoned by candy, Chief-Inspector Edward Beale and his sidekick, Tony Purdon, are on hand to investigate. They learn about life and sports at the school, where undercurrents from long ago run deep and mysterious. Who would want to murder an innocent young schoolboy? And is there more of the cyanide hidden around the schoolgrounds, waiting for its next victim? Beale and Purdon are in a race to find the killer before he strikes again. Ramble House continues to publish the works of Rupert Penny (pseudonym of Ernest Basil Charles Thornett, 1909-1970) and 1940’s SWEET POISON is one of the best.
Hardcover Print: $32.00
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Sideslip
Hardcover. Ted White and Dave Van Arnam's wild adventure, a hybrid of hardboiled private eye story and chilling parallel history — with more than a touch of UFOs and menacing aliens, 'Sideslip' is certain to delight a new generation of readers. People who complain that, “They don’t write ‘em like that anymore!” may be write. 'Sideslip' definitely is the way “they useta write ’em,” and a guaranteed lightning-paced, thrilling read.
Hardcover Print: $30.00
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Find the Woman
Hardcover. A madcap Arabian Nights fairy-tale of adventure, suspense, slapstick comedy, crime and sweet romance, 'Find the Woman' is one of the great Gelett Burgess’s most audacious and most entertaining novels. Opening with a scene of pulp melodrama, Burgess plunges his hero into wild, surrealistic turmoil. There are jewel thefts, beautiful mystery women, baggy-pants comedians, and tall tales unfolding to reveal taller tales. What Burgess was thinking when he wrote 'Find the Woman' we will never know, but the modern reader will alternately gasp with amazement, tremble with excitement, and roar with laughter as a courageous — but confused — young man who may or may not be John Fenton pursues a lovely and enigmatic young woman who may or may not be Belle Charmion.
Hardcover Print: $30.00
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The Time Armada
Hardcover. Fox B. Holden’s 'The Time Armada,' published as a serial in 1953, has never before appeared in book form. It is the first Surinam Turtle Press “original.” Surinam Turtle Press is proud to present this exciting and important science fiction novel to a new generation of readers. Excerpt from editorial by William L. Hamling in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, October, 1953: “This month — for the first time — Imagination publishes a serial in two parts. We believe the author, Fox B. Holden, has written as gripping and dramatic a science fiction novel as we’ve read in many years; it will quite likely be published in book form in the near future; thus we’ve taken a new step forward which we hope will meet with your approval. We would like to stress again that serials in Madge will really have to be outstanding....”
Hardcover Print: $30.00
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Tenebrae
Hardcover. This is the first reprinting of this thriller since its publication in 1898. It's the story of a pair of brothers, the woman they love, and the horrors of spiders and jealousy. A vintage classic.
Hardcover Print: $28.00
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