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Fender Tucker
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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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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Policeman in Armour TPB
Trade paperback. In Policeman in Armour, Rupert Penny once again guides you through the evidence up to a certain point, then turns on you and says: “Now you ought to know who murdered the man, and how, and why.” But do you know? Test your brains and see. You will find it an enthralling-game.
In this story, Sir Raymond Everett, ex-judge, is murdered in his mansion Heath Approach, and there is no shortage of suspects for Chief-Inspector Beale of Scotland Yard to interrogate and consider. Assisted as always by his friend and fellow-sleuth Tony Purdon, as well as Detective-sergeant ‘Horsey’ Matthews, also of the Yard, and the local constabulary, Beale finds this case one of the most challenging of his career.
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The Day the Music Died TPB
The Day the Music Died is the first in the Sam McCain series by Ed Gorman. The series is the most nostalgic and realistic portrayal of small-town America as it was in the late 50s and Ramble House promises to bring all eight of them back into print. This book also includes, as a gift to all Ed's fans, his short story featuring Sam McCain, The Christmas Kitten.
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Wake Up Little Susie TPB
Wake Up Little Susie is the second books of the Sam McCain series. McCain, who is a small-town lawyer working for a judge, runs into the dark side of the tumultuous 50s and 60s and uses his wit and good nature to survive. If you remember the 50s, this is the most nostalgic series you'll read this year. Ramble House plans to bring more Sam McCain books into print.
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Blood Moon TPB
Blood Moon is the first Robert Payne book by Ed Gorman. Payne is an ex-FBI profiler who knows evil and the people who practice it. Along with Hawk Moon and Harlot's Moon, which Ramble House hopes to publish soon, this series is the most hard-boiled of Gormans'.
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The Wrong Verdict TPB
Trade paperback. Vera Pollard’s father was unjustly convicted of murder and sent to prison, and years later, when she became an assistant to a Chinese mentalist named Lian Foo, he was released. Thus began a series of events that threatened to send another innocent man, Vera’s fiancé Ronald Watson, to the gallows. Walter S. Masterman, author of numerous mysteries that spirit the reader into a world of opium, séances and murder, wrote this in 1938, at the height of his literary powers. It is the latest in the Masterman series from Ramble House, a novel of suspense that has been forgotten too long.
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Never Leave My Bed TPB
Trade paperback. 'Never Leave My Bed' is a much revised version of Joel Townsley Rogers’ 1953 novel 'The Stopped Clock'.
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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: $24.97
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Deep Space TPB
Trade paperback. "Forever City" is the story of Alfonso Ivanovich Petrov and Mariel O’Hara, two members of a space-bred generation to whom Earth is little more than their ancestral home, a legend of the past. When Mariel’s brother, Dylan, disappears on an expedition to explore the distant Oort Cloud that circles the sun at a distance far beyond the orbit of the most remote planet, Mariel refuses to give him up for lost. Along with Alfonso, Mariel explores deep space in search of her missing brother!
Also included in Deep Space: A Novel and Two Novelettes are Richard A. Lupoff’s acclaimed, Nebula-nominated stories “After the Dreamtime” and “Sail the Tide of Mourning.”
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Murder in Black & White TPB
Trade paperback. When architect / amateur artist Sam Horder takes a vacation at Chateau St. Andre he has no idea that the game of tennis — not lawn tennis — would play such a major role in his future. But when a tennis player is shot dead and the gunshot is found to be from an impossible angle — near the Tower Pantaloon — Horder finds himself embroiled in a mystery that threatens more victims, including Sam himself. He’ll have to use all of his architectural and artistic skills to merely stay alive.
This classic Mediterranean whodunnit from 1931 features the artwork of Austin Blomfield and is in print again for the first time in decades.
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Sweet Poison TPB
Trade paperback. Murder comes slowly to prep school Anstey Court, but when a young student is poisoned by candy, Chief-Inspector Edward Beale and his sidekick, Tony Purdon, are on hand to investigate. They learn about life and sports at the school, where undercurrents from long ago run deep and mysterious. Who would want to murder an innocent young schoolboy? And is there more of the cyanide hidden around the schoolgrounds, waiting for its next victim? Beale and Purdon are in a race to find the killer before he strikes again.
Ramble House continues to publish the works of Rupert Penny (pseudonym of Ernest Basil Charles Thornett, 1909-1970) and 1940’s SWEET POISON is one of the best.
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Killer's Caress TPB
Trade paperback. Three black moles on a voluptuous siren’s shapely thigh lead Johnny Harding, dapper, wise-cracking columnist of the Daily Telegraph, into a web of crime and caresses adroitly spun by a spider of seduction.
For the debut of his popular character in book form, Cary Moran has written a fast-moving, thrill-packed story studded with laughs, mystery and passion. The Broadway scene, with its chicanery and un-moralities, forms the background for the characters who march across its pages; they are etched in terse, dynamic language.
If, for any reason, you object to the calling of a spade by its proper name, this is not for you — Cary Moran has avoided pulling his verbal punches. The women who weave their sensual way through his story live, love and lust. The men have red blood flowing through their veins.
We give you — if you can take it — a mystery story in the modern manner.
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Sideslip TPB
Trade Paperback. Ted White and Dave Van Arnam's wild adventure, a hybrid of hardboiled private eye story and chilling parallel history — with more than a touch of UFOs and menacing aliens, 'Sideslip' is certain to delight a new generation of readers. People who complain that, “They don’t write ‘em like that anymore!” may be write. 'Sideslip' definitely is the way “they useta write ’em,” and a guaranteed lightning-paced, thrilling read.
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The Yellow Mistletoe TPB
Trade paperback. 1930’s THE YELLOW MISTLETOE is the third mystery by Walter S. Masterman to be published by Ramble House and there will be more. It’s the rollicking tale of murder in the tubes of London, which looks to be an accident, until Chief-Inspector Arthur Sinclair proves that it wasn’t. The trail of evidence leads to the English countryside where he meets a cast of characters right out of a H. Rider Haggard novel. Then it’s off to the wilds of Bulgaria where a hidden city provides enough ritualistic danger for a dozen thrillers.
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Dead Mice TPB
Trade paperback. A serial killer has taken to leaving dead bodies at the homes of prominent San Franciscans, including Charlie Moon’s long-time client, Elizabeth Kendrie. When a suspect is arrested, Elizabeth urges Charlie to defend him; reluctantly Charlie does, aware that the man he is defending may be guilty, and if freed, would kill again.
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Poisonous Fruit TPB
Trade paperback. Danger is everywhere for attorney Charlie Moon: his client Frank Girouard is accused of sexual assault on a minor and though Charlie is sure he is innocent, he is certain that the school girls accusing him have been abused by someone. While his wife, Superior Court Judge Morgan Studevant, is being stalked for her decisions in an on-going trial, Charlie is drawn into the appalling underground of child pornography.
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Music When Sweet Voices Die TPB
Trade paperback. MUSIC WHEN SWEET VOICES DIE brings another challenging case to Bay Area lawyer, and Ojibwa shaman, Charlie Moon. The death of a star singer during a performance of 'Les Contes d’Hoffman' brings pressure to bear on the San Francisco Opera — and suspicion to fall on the dead singer’s fellow musicians. To discover the truth behind the death, Moon must use all his skills of detection and intuition to penetrate the cloud of operatic egos and politics.
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Find the Woman TPB
Trade paperback. A madcap Arabian Nights fairy-tale of adventure, suspense, slapstick comedy, crime and sweet romance, 'Find the Woman' is one of the great Gelett Burgess’s most audacious and most entertaining novels. Opening with a scene of pulp melodrama, Burgess plunges his hero into wild, surrealistic turmoil. There are jewel thefts, beautiful mystery women, baggy-pants comedians, and tall tales unfolding to reveal taller tales.
What Burgess was thinking when he wrote 'Find the Woman' we will never know, but the modern reader will alternately gasp with amazement, tremble with excitement, and roar with laughter as a courageous — but confused — young man who may or may not be John Fenton pursues a lovely and enigmatic young woman who may or may not be Belle Charmion.
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The Time Armada TPB
Trade Paperback. Fox B. Holden’s 'The Time Armada,' published as a serial in 1953, has never before appeared in book form. It is the first Surinam Turtle Press “original.” Surinam Turtle Press is proud to present this exciting and important science fiction novel to a new generation of readers.
Excerpt from editorial by William L. Hamling in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, October, 1953:
“This month — for the first time — Imagination publishes a serial in two parts. We believe the author, Fox B. Holden, has written as gripping and dramatic a science fiction novel as we’ve read in many years; it will quite likely be published in book form in the near future; thus we’ve taken a new step forward which we hope will meet with your approval. We would like to stress again that serials in Madge will really have to be outstanding....”
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