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The Keeler Keyhole Collection TPB
Trade Paperback. This huge, 430-page, book collects and organizes most of the hundreds of newsletters Harry Stephen Keeler sent to selected readers in the years 1955-1966. Annotated by Francis M. Nevins.
Print: $19.97
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A To Izzard TPB
Trade paperback. A collection of writings about, by and in the style of Harry Stephen Keeler. This is the official 'companion' book to the Chicago author who defined the genre, webwork mysteries.
Print: $16.97
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The Boucher Chronicles TPB
Trade paperback. The Boucher Chronicles: Being the collection of all of the weekly and monthly reviews written by Anthony Boucher between 1942 and 1947 for the San Francisco Chronicle. 470 pages.
Print: $21.99
Download: $9.99
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Tenebrae TPB
Trade paperback. This is the first reprinting of this thriller since its publication in 1896. It's the story of a pair of brothers, the woman they love and the horrors of spiders and jealousy. A vintage classic.
Print: $17.96
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A Young Man's Heart TPB
Trade paperback. For the first time since 1930 this early semi-autobiographical novel by Cornell Woolrich is available. It's a tale of love and betrayal in the exotic climes of Mexico in the early 20th century.
Print: $17.97
Download: $8.00
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The Best of 10-Story Book TPB
Trade paperback. From 1919 to 1940 Harry Stephen Keeler edited a literary girlie magazine called The 10-Story Book. It would publish stories other magazines of the time wouldn't and over 30 of them are here. Edited by Chris Mikul.
Print: $21.96
Download: $8.00
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Kiss The Killer TPB
Trade Paperback. Joseph Shallit's final novel (1952) in the Dan Morrison series deals with the hoods and the cops who battle it out over the marijuana trade. One of the better dope novels of the 1950s.
Print: $17.96
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Lady Don't Die On My Doorstep TPB
Trade Paperback. This is Joseph Shallit's third novel in the Dan Morrison, average guy who solves crimes, series. Written in 1951 it continues one of the most likeable mystery series ever created.
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Yell Bloody Murder TPB
Trade Paperback. Written in 1951, this is the second novel in the Dan Morrison series. Dan, who has just returned from the war simply wants to take life easy, but somehow murder always seems to find him.
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Take Your Last Look TPB
Trade Paperback. Joseph Shallit's last novel, written in 1954, it's one of his best. In the mold of Jim Thompson's THE KILLER INSIDE ME, Shallit's tale of crooked narc, Cliff Hardie, will scare the hell out of you.
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The Case of the Billion Dollar Body TPB
Trade Paperback. Joseph Shallit's first novel from 1947 introduces Dan Morrison, an average ex-GI who wants to open his own gym. But after he takes a job a bodyguard for a rich brat he finds himself sparring with murder.
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The Sign of the Scorpion TPB
Trade paperback. Edmund Snell's 1935 novel of the most evil Chinese villain since Fu Manchu. He always sends a card with the sign of the scorpion before he kills. And his victims end up with a tattoo of the scorpion on their wrists!
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The Incredible Adventures of Rowland Hern TPB
Trade paperback. This is a very hard-to-find book from 1928 about a sleuth who solves the most amazing and unusual crimes. Full of 'impossible' mysteries in the style of Robert Adey or John Dickson Carr. Intro by John Norris.
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Gadsby TPB
Written in 1939, in the last year if his life, Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel without using the letter E. This is it.
Print: $16.99
Download: $8.99
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Fakealoo! TPB
Trade Paperback. 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.
Print: $13.00
Download: $6.25
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The de Mexico Novels TPB
Trade paperback. Three classic noir novels by N.R. de Mexico, including MARIJUANA GIRL (1950), MADMAN ON A DRUM (1952) and PRIVATE CHAUFFEUR (1954). Identity of the author is revealed for the first time in the introduction!
Print: $19.92
Download: $8.00
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The Hangman's Handyman TPB
Trade paperback. The second Rogan Kincaid thriller, Hake Talbot wrote this in 1942 about a party on an island called the Kraken, attended by rich fools, devious criminals and the guest of honor: murder.
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Rim of the Pit TPB
Trade paperback. In 1944 Hake Talbot wrote his masterpiece, a locked room mystery about a group of people stuck at a snow-surrounded lodge in Canada. An excellent map of the area shows just how claustrophobic snow can be.
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Dime Novels TPB
Trade paperback. A 2006 collection of the Ramble House 10-cent books, featuring stories by Ed Earl Repp, Robert Leslie Bellem, Arthur J. Burks, Edward Lucas White and others.
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Prose Bowl TPB
Trade paperback. A 1980 satire on writing and sports set in the near future, when violence is banned and hack writing takes its place. No time to dance in the endzone when you have 2000 words to write and the clock is ticking.
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