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It Leads to Murder TPB
Trade paperback. After turning his back on San Bonito, Matt Whitney believed the door to the past had been shut forever. Until the night gunfire rocked the quiet California town, forcing him to return — to gaze again upon the things of yesteryear, to use any means available to find who it was that had destroyed his family.
But Whitney was a writer-cartoonist, not a detective, and he knew he was taking on something for which he was not equipped to handle. Sooner than expected, he finds himself enmeshed in a web of conspiracy and deceit, moving among people who have much to hide…
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Death at Nostalgia Street TPB
Trade paperback. Broke and hung over, Lee Tyrell arrives in Brandon Falls, and for a while, it looks as if he has reached the final stop on a long downhill slide. When, unexpectedly, a publisher of movie nostalgia magazines offers him a job as editor, Tyrell gradually starts putting his life together again. Everything is working out well . . . until death makes a call at Nostalgia Street.
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The Ramble House Mapbacks
Stapled paperback. A listing of all the Ramble House mapback books to date, together with the illustrator's explanations behind each design.
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The Compleat Calhoon TPB
Trade Paperback. For the first time, just about all of the pitiful sentences Fender Tucker managed to publish, as well as 60 of his original songs, are collected in one tome. It's here; the whole mess. TALES FROM THE TOWER, WEED WOMEN & SONG, and THE TOTAH TRILOGY.
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Murder in Silk TPB
Trade paperback. When Nikolas Nolescue, senior silk merchant at Oxton’s, the exclusive silk emporium of greater London is found, strangled and wrapped in a bolt of his finest Suchow silk, foul play is suspected. Perhaps foul play by the foulest of all villainies — a Chinese tong! But there are other suspects for Police Superintendent Beck, such as Nolescue’s comely assistant, Phyllis Varley, or her apparent beau, young silk clerk Philip Slater. And what about Peter Oxton, owner of the silk emporium?
When a piece of missing material is revealed to hold a clue to an ancient Chinese secret of eternal life, the case really gets complicated and before long the desperate Superintendent realizes he doesn’t have even a Chinaman’s chance of solving this one!
‘Ralph Trevor’ was the pseudonym used by James Reginald Wilmot for his numerous mystery novels.
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Fatal Accident TPB
Trade paperback. Back in 1936 a speedy motor vehicle was an accident waiting to happen, so it was a good time for British mystery writer Cecil M. Wills to come up with a corker of a tale involving a Keelerian will, a nasty feudal lord with a heavy accelerator foot, and plenty of marital discord. Luckily Detective-Inspector Geoffrey Boscobell is on the case and before long the poisonous machinations of a murderous fiend (or is it fiendess?) are exposed. Add this long-forgotten gem of detection to your rapidly-growing library of Ramble House reprints from the good ol' days of British crime. They just don't write 'em like this any more.
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Suzy
Coffee-table-sized paperback. Here are the complete series of comics by Richard O'Brien and Bob Vojtko published back in 1985 -- 216 strips in all. By the writer of the Koky strips.
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Slammer Days TPB
Trade paperback. These days, when we hear of "prison memoirs" we think of hardened criminals who, while paying their debt to society, learned how to write the story of their lives from their cells. SLAMMER DAYS is not one of those books. The two books in this present volume, 'Men Into Beasts' and 'Home Away From Home' by George Sylvester Viereck and Jack Woodford, are the prison memoirs of hard-working, professional writers who wound up in prison for different reasons, but who felt compelled to write of their experiences in the big house after they were released. They use their writing skills to show how the system can beat a man down and how a non-criminal mind can persevere and eventually triumph. With an introduction by Richard A. Lupoff.
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Policeman's Evidence TPB
Trade Paperback. Rupert Penny wrote this 1938 masterpiece about a family that has had a hidden treasure for over a century until murder and Inspector Beale are invited for an old-fashioned treasure hunt.
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Policeman's Holiday TPB
Trade Paperback. In this 1937 puzzle-within-puzzle novel. Rupert Penny produces a hanging in an orchard that may or may not be suicide. The only clue is an acrostic that Inspector Beale must solve.
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The Julius Caesar Murder Case TPB
Trade paperback. This amazing novel with an alternate explanation for the death of Julius Caesar was written in 1935 and reads like I, CLAUDIUS meets THE FRONT PAGE. The Ides of March have never been so much fun. Intro by Richard A. Lupoff.
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Echo of Fear TPB
Trade Paperback. This is the latest Paul Cameron murder mystery, written this year by Wade Wright of South Africa.
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Invaders from the Dark TPB
Trade paperback. The manuscript that became this book of malevolent lycanthropy in the astral plane has a strange provenance. It was thrown to Greye La Spina by Sophie Delorme, a mysterious woman leaning from a window on the second story of a house that was immediately destroyed by an explosion. La Spina read and published it despite a series of threats and actual attacks by person or persons unknown. All of this took place in 1924 and the stamp of that decadent era is all over the tale about a visit to Differdale mansion by young Owen Edwards, and his encounter with Sophie's beautiful niece, Portia, and the exotic Princess Tchernova. All seems so innocent, despite the presence of a pack of wolves kept as pets by the princess, until deaths start piling up in the countryside. As Owen investigates, the clues seem to point to something more dangerous than mere feral pets: werewolves!
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The Devil Drives TPB
Trade paperback. Virgil Markham, author of the classic 1928 thriller 'Death in the Dusk', wrote this masterpiece of suspense in 1932, long before Cornell Woolrich took over the reins of nail-biting mystery. But you’ll never find a more terrifying example of early crime noir — on any continent.
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The Naked Trocar TPB
Trade paperback. THE NAKED TROCAR, Fender Tucker's first Knees Calhoon mysadventure, rips the lid off of Farmington New Mexico's sleazy mortuary bidness. THE BEST REVENGE is a sort-of western story about the area as it was in 1899.
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The Chinese Jar Mystery TPB
Trade paperback. “John Stephen Strange” was the pseudonym of Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett (1896-1983), who wrote several classic mystery novels. ‘The Chinese Jar Mystery’, originally published in 1934, is an intriguing whodunit involving the descendants of a buccaneering opium trader, a family curse, and a strange antique Chinese jar. Ramble House is pleased to be able to bring this old mystery back for the delectation of modern readers.
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Sealed Room Murder TPB
Trade paperback. When we think of “locked room mysteries” we think of John Dickson Carr and his imitators, but back in 1941 Britain’s Rupert Penny penned one of the best and most satisfying impossible crimes ever crafted—SEALED ROOM MURDER. Fans of the Policeman mysteries of Rupert Penny will find this classic whodunit every bit as puzzling the others. With diagrams, charts, maps and even a Dutton-like challenge to the reader page, this is a mystery you can’t pass up, published for the first time since its debut.
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The Dead Are Blind TPB
Trade paperback. The performance of a radio play is the scene of a mysterious murder, and among the audience are Chief Detective-Inspector William Jamieson Read of Scotland Yard and his sleuthing comrade Jeffery Blackburn. In an unexpected twist, the radio studio where the crime is committed has become locked, turning the case into a true ‘locked room’ mystery. Blackburn and Read must pit their wits against a host of possible suspects as they work to untangle the wicked web of weirdness.
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Dr. Odin TPB
Trade paperback. A spate of mysterious disappearances of young women has all of London in a dither, and Scotland Yard sleuth Raphael Phare calls on his old friend Martin Sondes to assist him in the “Seven Lost Beauties” case. Number one suspect is infamous Swedish Dr. Odoric Odin.
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Tiresias TPB
Trade Paperback. A novel of betrayal and revenge that cuts to the quick when a mysterious siren turns up missing -- and violence fills the vacuum. A new novel from Jonathan M. Sweet of Smokin' Cat.
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