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Stakeout on Millennium Drive
Trade Paperback. Ian Woollen's first novel, a tale of greed and deception with a soupcon of black humor about the denizens of Indianapolis.
Print: $18.97
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Dope Tales #3 TPB
Trade Paperback. Two incredible yarns about opium and our grandparents' generation -- when drugs were fun. DOPE and THE YELLOW CLAW, both from 1937. Over 420 pages of pure Rohmerian hijinks, including wily Celestials and decadent flappers.
Print: $21.97
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Night of Horror TPB
Trade paperback. This is a brand-new collection of six short stories and one novelette by Joel Townsley Rogers, author of the classic The Red Right Hand. Barry Warren selected the stories and wrote the introduction.
Print: $17.97
Download: $8.00
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The Werewolf Vs the Vampire Woman TPB
Trade Paperback. This is one of the oddest stories ever written. The author is either Scarm or Scram and he has enthusiasm, that's for sure. But can he write? Your library needs this book to be complete.
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Never Leave My Bed
Hardcover. In 1923 Joel Townsley Rogers wrote a long, atmospheric thriller called Once In a Red Moon. Then he settled into writing short stories and articles and became quite well known for them. It wasn’t until 1945 that he tried another novel and it, The Red Right Hand, has become a classic of the suspense genre. He followed it up with Lady With The Dice in 1946 and The Stopped Clock in 1953. Then in 1963 Beacon Signal published a much revised version of The Stopped Clock as Never Leave My Bed.
Hardcover Print: $29.99
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The Portrait of Jirjohn Cobb
Hardcover. This is the first volume of the Big River Trilogy where four men, one who is a brutal killer, are trapped on an island in the middle of a raging river. Written in 1938.
Hardcover Print: $29.99
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The Six From Nowhere
Hardcover. Who are those six mysterious figures that are looming outside the owner’s trailer of Angus MacWhorter’s Mammoth Motorized Shows? And why would they want the copy of a pulp magazine that he bought for ten cents? The answers have something to do with a gangster by the name of Gonwyck Schwaaa, the tong of the Lean Grey Rats, and a group calling itself the Society of Retired Clergymen. Whew! Luckily, there’s an introduction by Francis M. Nevins (with two maps) to give you some background on Harry Stephen Keeler’s “Screwball Circus” world.
Hardcover Print: $35.00
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The Circus Stealers
Hardcover. There’s nothing new under the sun in Idiots’ Valley, home of Harry Stephen Keeler’s Screwball Circus. Angus MacWhorter’s circus has made it across Old Twistibus—the windingest road in the world—but there’s still an important wagon that Rance Holly has to drive to catch up with the rest of the circus in Foleysburg, or the circus will be lost to rival entrepreneur, Wolf Gladish. There’s no nuttier place in the country than Idiots’ Valley, with its pack of illiterate bumpkins, and Harry and Hazel milk it for all it’s worth in this first English-language edition of a Keeler classic!
Hardcover Print: $35.00
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Fakealoo!
Hardcover. Being a collection of the winners of the Imitate Keeler Kontest held every year since 1997 by the Harry Stephen Keeler Society - along with a few other notable Keeler pastiches. The collection of outrageous tales is updated every year with the latest winning pastiche. Ken Keeler's 2008 winner, THE MIND WITH THE ALTERNATE SKULL MYSTERY, one of the most brilliant brainswapping yarns ever written, is reason enough to buy this book.
Hardcover Print: $27.00
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Dope Tales #2 TPB
Trade Paperback. The second in Ramble House's hot new series brings you Rex Dark's 1937 thriller, The Invisible Hand, and Norman Berrow's 1934 debut novel, The Smokers of Hashish. Two classics in one volume.
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Death Takes the Joystick TPB
Trade Paperback. Phillip Conde wrote several mysteries involving aircraft and this 1937 potboiler is one of his best. Lots of death-dealing dope action and aeronautical thrills.
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The Ninth Life TPB
Trade paperback. Written in 1939, this is Jack Mann's (E. Charles Vivian) novel of Egyptology. When a friend of Gees' falls in love with an exotic woman of the Nile, Gees has to find out if she's for real -- or die trying.
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The Glass Too Many TPB
Trade Paperback. This is the last Gees' novel to be published by Ramble House (until we can find the Kleinert Case) and it's a 1940's doozy about a mysterious disease that threatens a countryside manor and its odd inhabitants. Impossible crime at its best.
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Grey Shapes TPB
Trade paperback. The third in the Gregory George Gordon Green (Gees) series, featuring the dapper private detective. He's off again to the hinterlands, this time to tackle some wily werewolves. Or are they?
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Nightmare Farm TPB
Trade paperback. Jack Mann (pseudonym of British author, E. Charles Vivian) moved into the supernatural realm with this 1937 thriller about a farm and its horrendous curse.
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Gees' First Case TPB
Trade paperback. Between 1936 and 1940 British author Jack Mann (E. Charles Vivian) wrote eight novels about Gregory George Gordon Green and his detective agency. In this first book he tackles Communists.
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The Crimson Clown Again TPB
Trade Paperback. This is a 1928 sequel to Johnston McCulley's episodic THE CRIMSON CLOWN. In it, Delton Prouse once again takes up his clown suit and syringe and scams the rich.
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The Crimson Clown TPB
This is the paperback edition of Johnston McCulley's 1927 episodic tale of a crime fighter who wears a red clown outfit and wields a syringe with a half-hour knockout drug in it. McCulley is the author of the Zorro stories.
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The House of the Vampire TPB
Trade paperback. This odd tale of horror was written in 1907 by a man who was later immortalised in Richard A. Lupoff's LOVECRAFT'S BOOK (aka MARBLEHEAD) as an early Nazi sympathizer. This edition also features three poems by the author, and a new introduction by Richard A. Lupoff.
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The Charlie Chaplin Murder Mystery
Trade paperback. The story of a lost Charlie Chaplin film and the shenanigans people will go through to obtain it. The first novel by a cinematic film scholar who knows his subject well.
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