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The Golden Dagger
Hardcover. Scotland Yard’s Commander Bobby Owen is in a quandary: he got a phone call saying there’s been a murder at the country estate, Cobblers, but he can’t find a body. There are two missing persons, one of them a famous best-selling author, but all he can find is a village full of very likely suspects and an expensive Bromberg that everyone says belongs to the murderer. What murderer?
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The Flying Beast
Hardcover. Walter S. Masterman, known for his oddball horror/mystery novels about demonic toads and toxic mistletoe, wrote 16 novels between 1926 and 1938. Ramble House is proud to bring back THE FLYING BEAST (1932) to go with last year’s THE GREEN TOAD. Once you enter his universe of ordinary citizens aiding exceptional detectives you’ll wonder why his action-packed books haven’t been reprinted before.
Hardcover Print: $32.00
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A Smell of Smoke
Hardcover. A distinctive smell of smoke presages a series of murders in the village of Lamsford, and it proves a puzzling case for Inspector Arnold and Desmond Merrion. ‘Miles Burton’ was one of the two famous pseudonyms used by Major Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1965), who also wrote under the name ‘John Rhode.’ The Miles Burton novels feature freelance sleuth Desmond Merrion, who collaborates on cases with Scotland Yard’s Inspector Henry Arnold.
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Two Locked Room Mysteries and a Ripping Yarn
Hardcover. This collection presents three short stories by Max Afford. Two tales feature sleuth Jeffery Blackburn, his wife Elizabeth, and Inspector William Read: ‘Poison Can Be Puzzling’ and ‘The Vanishing Trick’ were originally published in Australian periodicals in the 1940s, and appear to be the only published short crime fiction tales by Afford. ‘The Gland Men Of The Island’ appears to be Afford’s sole foray into science-fiction; the story first appeared in WONDER STORIES in 1931.
Hardcover Print: $27.00
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A Clear Path to Cross
Hardcover with Jacket. This is a collection of 20 stories featuring P.I. Sharon Knowles. All but one of these early short stories appeared in the paper and online pulp venues, including the notable HandHeldCrime, during the Internet bubble of the early twenty-first century.
Hardcover Print: $31.00
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Detective Duff Unravels It
Hardcover. Detective John Duff is a detective with a difference. Using his knowledge of psychology, and an intricate network of carefully-placed informants, Duff manages to solve even the most difficult and mysterious cases.
This collection of eight short stories, each one a unique case with a different angle, has earned a place in the highly-respected Queen’s Quorum as one of the major works in crime fiction.
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The Triune Man
Hardcover. Originally published in 1976, Richard A. Lupoff’s The Triune Man was decades ahead of its time. The Triune Man was the first attempt to treat the superhero as an iconic figure, important to the modern psyche. Praised by critics and fans alike when it first appeared, The Triune Man was also published in England, France, and Germany. Out of print for three decades, this important novel has become a sought-after collectible. Surinam Turtle Press is proud to make it available once more.
Hardcover Print: $30.99
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Rough Cut & New, Improved Murder
Hardcover. Here are Ed Gorman's first two novels, set in the decadent world of advertising, in one volume. NEW IMPROVED MURDER is the first Jack Dwyer novel. They were written in 1985.
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Finger-Prints Never Lie!
Hardcover. Detective-Inspector McCarthy of Scotland Yard C.I.D. is assigned to the case of Lord Arthur Warnecke, who has been murdered in his mansion, and his safe cracked and rifled of its sensitive contents. McCarthy finds from the start that this is no easily-solved case.
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Cemetery First Stop!
Hardcover. When Lefty Vincent shot up the Conway Bank at San Francisco and scuttled across five States to his hide-out, he didn’t know that a life and death struggle had started between himself and Mick Cardby. Nor did Mick, sitting in his office six thousand miles away. Curiously enough Clare Furness, playing tennis in Boston when the lid blew off in San Francisco had never heard of either of them. But it wasn’t long before the three lives were intermixed in a blaze of feverish action. From the first word to the grandstand finish there is no pause, no release of tension as thrill crashes upon thrill. Another great Mick Cardby case from the pen of David Hume.
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Two O'Clock Courage
Trade Paperback. This 1934 thriller is the third book under Richard A. Lupoff's Surinam Turtle imprint. A man wakes up in a park and can't remember who he is. But thanks to the help of a couple of intriguing women, he manages to remain free from arrest for a murder he MAY have committed. But he simply must figure out his identity before the cops -- or the murderer -- catch up with him. The story was made into a film called TWO IN THE DARK and the plot has been used in later films and books (notably Evan Hunter's BUDDWING and a British film called HYSTERIA) but no one has done it with the skill and style of Gelett Burgess.
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Ruled by Radio
Hardcover. Originally published in 1925, this science-fiction story set in 1930 is a zany and dazzling excursion into a world in which the world’s technology revolves around radio waves, reminiscent of the concepts of Nikola Tesla. This 'Utopia' is upset by a new invention which can interrupt radio waves, wielded by a megalomaniac who has ambitions of world domination.
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Eternity Here I Come
Hardcover. Twenty men at Scotland Yard had spent nearly a year trying to discover the identity of the master criminal who called himself Jonathan Wilde. There were many odd features about the man’s method of business. Those who worked for him mostly ended their criminal careers by pacing a cell floor, staring through a barred window, scowling at sundry warders, and regretting everything they could remember. Mick Cardby knew of these peculiarities when the firm of Cardby and Son received an unusual client. The man had one ambition in life — to see that Jonathan Wilde took an early breakfast, a short walk, and a long drop. He offered the firm real money to work as hounds in the gallows hunt.
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The Sheep and the Wolves
Hardcover. Ramble House presents another Jeffery Blackburn mystery from the pen of ace radio writer, Max Afford. In this 1940s suspense novel the private investigator is hitting the bottle a little too hard and consequently having trouble keeping his wife, Elizabeth, content. But when a major case of murder snares him it adds just the right amount of danger to save his marriage. All he has to do is find out who strangled the Greek, Cassamatis, with a silken cord and determine whose bullet is found lodged in the back of a sultry dame. All in a day's work for the PI and his friend, Chief Inspector William Read.
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The White Cat
Hardcover. This is the second title in the Surinam Turtle imprint by Richard A. Lupoff. This remarkable novel, featuring architect Chester Castle and the beautiful but deeply troubled Joy Fielding, was first published in 1907. In its examination of the dissociative identity or “multiple personality” theme it was far ahead of its time. Readers familiar with the literature will recognize the case of Sally Beauchamp, as recorded by psychiatrist Morton Prince, as the model for Gelett Burgess’s courageous heroine. There is an introduction by Richard A. Lupoff and illustrations by Will Grefé.
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Make Way for the Mourners
Hardcover. When the Cardbys were called in to investigate the strange happenings at Hampton Manor, it looked like a tough assignment from the beginning, and Mick Cardby is soon right up to his neck in trouble. What was happening in the grim old castle and what was the connection between the queer collection of guests and the sinister Mart Dilley, that hideous monstrosity who inhabited the tumbledown mill house nearby? Careless of savage attempts on his life, Mick Cardby searches the cellars under the old house, and shows just how near death it is possible to be without actually qualifying for a harp.
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The Night Remembers
Hardback. Ed Gorman wrote this 1991 gem as a tribute to Bill Pronzini's Nameless series. Now Pronzini provides a foreword to this much-deserved reprint of a classic modern noir about past crimes and their punishment.
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Dago Red
Hardcover. A brilliant collection of 22 excursions into the darkest heart of noir. From the perils of familial love in “Dago Red” to the deadly TV sports of “Olaf And the Merchandisers”, Pronzini runs you through a wringer of chills and thrills, with a couple of Nameless Detective stories to keep you grounded.
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Inclination to Murder
Hardcover. Inspector Shade of the Wellington police was mildly disturbed when a young bohemian artist who also had the last name of Shade told him about a dead man she had seen on the local train. Surely she was making it all up. No one else reported such a thing. But as the pieces of this ingenious puzzle all started to fall into place, Inspector Shade found himself caught up in murder, mayhem, and more than a little intrigue as he tried to help the young woman stay alive. The trouble was — she might be the killer!
Ramble House brings back this classic Kiwi mystery written by Harriet Hunter and hopes to also reprint her only other mystery, CASE FOR PUNISHMENT. Stay tuned.
Hardcover Print: $28.00
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Ogilvie, Tallant and Moon
Hardcover. In OGILVIE, TALLANT & MOON best-selling author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro introduces San Francisco attorney Charlie Moon, who happens to be an Ojibwa shaman. He's got his lawbooks and a special gift for detection to make his cases for him but when things go wrong, it's the way of his ancestors that shows him the path. All four of the Charlie Moon series novels are available from Ramble House.
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