In 1932 Harry Stephen Keeler came out with a huge novel which was split into two books. This is the ending book that wraps the whole case up. HSK 1932

Walter S. Masterman, known for his oddball horror/mystery novels about demonic toads and toxic mistletoe, wrote 16 novels... More > between 1926 and 1938. Once you enter his universe of ordinary citizens aiding exceptional detectives you'll wonder why. < Less

When we think of "locked room mysteries" we think of John Dickson Carr and his imitators, but back in 1941 Britain's Rupert... More > 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. < Less

This collection presents three short stories by Max Afford. Two tales feature sleuth Jeffery Blackburn, his wife Elizabeth,... More > and Inspector William Read: 'Poison Can Be Puzzling' and 'The Vanishing Trick' were originally published in Australian periodicals in the 1940s, and appear to be the only published short crime fiction tales by Afford. 'The Gland Men Of The Island' appears to be Afford's sole foray into science-fiction; the story first appeared in WONDER STORIES in 1931. < Less

Harry Stephen Keeler wrote this huge novel in 1931 and it is probably the first novel to ever address the horror of a small... More > tactical nuclear weapon being hidden in a suitcase. < Less

"Forever City" is the story of Alfonso Ivanovich Petrov and Mariel O'Hara, two members of a space-bred generation to whom... More > 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." < Less

Between 1936 and 1940 British author Jack Mann (E. Charles Vivian) wrote eight novels about Gregory George Gordon Green and... More > his detective agency. In this first book he tackles Communists. < Less

Ramble House presents another Jeffery Blackburn mystery from the pen of ace radio writer, Max Afford. In this 1940s suspense... More > novel the private investigator is hitting the bottle a little too hard and consequently having trouble keeping his wife, Elizabeth, content. But when a major case of murder snares him it adds just the right amount of danger to save his marriage. All he has to do is find out who strangled the Greek, Cassamatis, with a silken cord and determine whose bullet is found lodged in the back of a sultry dame. All in a day's work for the PI and his friend, Chief Inspector William Read. < Less

Published in 2007, this collection of pastiches by well-known paperback and noir enthusiast Gary Lovisi, has three great... More > stories, an intro by Gary and an afterword by Richard A. Lupoff. < Less

The second Rogan Kincaid thriller, Hake Talbot wrote this in 1942 about a party on an island called the Kraken, attended by... More > rich fools, devious criminals and the guest of honor: murder. < Less