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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?
Be sure to check out ALL of the pages of books. Hardbacks are on the last pages. If you want a hardback copy of any title, and can't find it, e-mail me!
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The Case of the Little Green Men TPB
Trade paperback. '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.
Print: $17.99
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Strands of the Web TPB
Trade paperback. Harry Stephen Keeler is notorious for the 90 or so outrageous novels he wrote back in the first half of the 20th century, but early in his writing career he wrote more than 30 short stories, many of which found their way into some of his 1001 Arabian Nights novels like THIEVES’ NIGHTS.
Fred Cleaver has collected 28 of the hardest to find stories in this new book from Ramble House, and has added an introduction, a bibliography of short stories, and an exhaustive set of notes pertaining to each story.
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A Shot Rang Out TPB
Trade paperback. A collection of essays and reviews by Edgar winner Jon L. Breen, who took over "The Jury Box" column in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine from John Dickson Carr in 1977. Since then he's written 8 novels and over 100 short stories, as well as contribute regularly to Mystery Scene magazine. This 300+ page book contains critical assessments of hundreds of the best American and European writers of the past 60 years.
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Ladies in Boxes TPB
Trade paperback. Originally published in 1942, 'Ladies in Boxes' was the last of Burgess’s mystery novels, and almost certainly the best. Set in the bustling world of New York night clubs, residential hotels, palatial suburban estates, and chauffeur-driven limousines, the novel features some of Burgess’s most fascinating characters. There are spies and counter-spies, murderers and models, beautiful women and sinister men. The United States was teetering on the brink of war, tension made the very air vibrate — and then three stunning beauties were murdered in a single afternoon!
In 'Ladies in Boxes' Burgess weaves a web of wild complexity and coincidence that has caused him to be compared to the great Harry Stephen Keeler — praise indeed in the world of massively convoluted plots!
Introduced by Richard A. Lupoff.
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Sorcerer's Chessmen TPB
Trade paperback. To propose that Michel Benni is a mystery man will be to understate the case: his history is not only hazy, but his behaviour suggests all manner of nefarious activities, and his apparent mental hold over people instills an immediate fear. As in a game of chess, the play begins — but are the rules governing both sides evenly stacked?
This is the fourth book under the Dancing Tuatara imprint to be published by Ramble House. Introduction by John Pelan.
Print: $22.00
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The Shadow on the House TPB
Trade paperback. A young man falls in love, and in so doing suddenly finds his world turned upside-down — in the most terrifying way. The events that come to pass will engage the reader to the very end.
First published in 1934, The Shadow on the House was the first novel by the mysterious Mark Hansom, who went on to write some of the darkest, and rarest, supernatural thrillers in the genre.
This is the third book under the Dancing Tuatara imprint to be published by Ramble House, and includes an introduction by John Pelan.
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The Whistling Ancestors TPB
Trade paperback. The plot pits a poor sidewalk artist against a fiendish mastermind who is not only intent on world domination, but determined to kill all white people and for reasons that are never made entirely clear, wants to create nymphs, satyrs, and other Greek and Roman demigods through the miracle of vivisection! These characteristics alone would qualify Caspar Pettifranc to take his rightful place alongside John Sunlight, Wu Fang, Doctor Death and the other great villains of the American pulps, but Goddard doesn’t stop here. The author also makes Pettifranc a master of voodoo who thus can ring in zombies and the pantheon of loas. For reasons that the author allows to remain obscure, the loas are given to making odd whistling noises, hence the title of the book. Introduction by John Pelan.
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Beast or Man? TPB
Trade paperback. Sean M'Guire wrote this lost race novel in 1930 when such stories were mired in racism and formula. But BEAST OR MAN? is more in the mold of H. Rider Haggard and addresses deeper themes, and at the same time, providing a rousing romp through Africa.
This is the first book under the Dancing Tuatara Press imprint (DTP) which promises to include more novels of Sean M'Guire.
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The Heart Line: A Drama of San Francisco TPB
Trade paperback. 'The Heart Line' explores old San Francisco’s heights and its depths, the elegance and wealth of Nob Hill and the noisy, kaleidoscopic tinctures of the Barbary Coast. In this setting Francis Granthope, Fancy Gray, Clytie Payson, the monstrous Madam Spoil and the devious Doctor Masterson weave their tapestry of purity and debasement, adoration and hatred, loyalty and treachery, charity and greed. 'The Heart Line' was Gelett Burgess’s heartbroken elegy to the city he had come to love — and that no longer was.
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Evidence in Blue TPB
Trade paperback. 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.
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The Talkative Policeman TPB
Trade paperback. 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?
Print: $23.99
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Victims & Villains tpb
Trade paperback. 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.
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The Dumpling TPB
Trade paperback. 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.
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The Perjured Alibi TPB
Trade paperback. 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.
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Hell Fire TPB
Trade paperback. 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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Murder in Shawnee TPB
Trade paperback. '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.
Print: $21.99
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Sin Master TPB
Trade paperback. 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.
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Researching American-Made Toy Soldiers
Trade paperback.
Print: $24.99
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Marblehead: A Novel of H.P. Lovecraft TPB
Trade Paperback. A major new mainstream novel by the author of LOVECRAFT'S BOOK, this chronicles a year (1927) in the life of the greatest horror writer of the 20th century. This huge book was written in 1976 and has been lost until now.
Print: $25.00
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A Roland Daniel Double tpb
Trade paperback. 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.
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