books by Crippen & Landru, Publishers     books:       The Archer Files, The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator4 reviews Ross Macdonald Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2007 Lew Archer is Back! All the Crippen and Landur books are great, but this time we have not only all the short stories, but also a small biography of Archer and ideas of possible stories. The collection is GREAT. (Its a sheme that no one developed the short stories in to a new collection). If you like PI collections, buy this one.             McCone & Friends3 reviews Marcia Muller Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2000 McCone & Friends Hits the Spot I have a signed limited edition of this book and couldn't resist the urge to read it. If you are a fan of Marcia Muller, this is a must have book. The stories in this book are told by Sharon's friends, giving the reader an insight into her personality that you would not normally get. And lets face it, characters in a long running serious develop personalities of their own. This book gives you ...             Diagnosis: Impossible--The Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne5 reviews Edward D. Hoch Crippen & Landru Publishers, 1996 Nothing is impossible! Fans of impossible crimes and locked room mysteries will love this book. How can a horse and carriage vanish from inside a covered bridge? How can a master criminal escape from a locked cell? How can a man be stabbed while alone in a voting booth? Get this book and find out the answers to these and nine other ingenious puzzlers from the great Edward D. Hoch, the reigning king of impossible ...             Murders and Other Confusions: The Chronicles of Susanna, Lady Appleton, 16th-Century Gentlewoman, Herbalist, ...3 reviews Kathy Lynn Emerson Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2004 Well-plotted mysteries Don't be fooled into thinking that this book is only for readers who care a lot about Elizabethan England. It has mysteries for everyone who wants a carefuly developed plot, interesting settings, and vivid characters. The historical aspect is just an added delight. The author has studied the period very well and furnishes the reader with many historical insights that increase his or her knowledge ...             Long Live the Dead : Tales from Black Mask2 reviews Hugh B. Cave Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2000 A Hugh Cave Appreciation: Words From This Book's Editor As the book's editor, and the man who interviewed Hugh B. Cave for the book, I am taking the unusual step of commenting on LONG LIVE THE DEAD with important information not presented elsewhere on the Amazon.com pages. I want fans of Hugh B. Cave to know that this book contains a substantial introduction to the total career of Mr. Cave written in honor of his 90th birthday. This collection of ...             The Battles of Jericho Hugh Pentecost, S.T. Karnick Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2008 JERICHO FIGHTS THE BATTLES!! Hugh Pentecost, the pseudonym of Judson Philips (1903-1989), created one of the most memorable of fictional sleuths in the red-bearded artist, John Jericho. The stories combine interesting settings, skillful puzzles, social concerns, and earnest melodrama. Jericho's paintings reflect his anger against social injustice and violence, and his search for Truth; and when the downtrodden, the unfairly accused, and ...             Byline: Mickey Spillane1 review Mickey Spillane Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2004 Not just your regular hardback book!! Spillane died 07/11/2006...COLLECTORS!! Look for the first HARDCOVER edition. It is a special print run limited to only 250 numbered copies (signed hardcover first editions!). Each signed by Mickey Spillane and Editors Max Allan Collins and Lynn Myers. Included in this volume are two Mike Hammer short stories that later became novels, a long lost Hammer story, the transcript of a Hammer playlet, ...             The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries2 reviews Ellery Queen Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2005 Challenge to the Reader The two cousins who wrote as "Ellery Queen" were born in 1905, and for their centennial the estimable specialty house Crippen & Landru have come out with a book of some radio plays they wrote in the late 30s and early 40s, the peak years for the great detective. Crippen & Landru issued an outline for a final, unfinished novel (A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS) which is marvelous to have, but this volume is a ...             The Tragedy of Errors and Others3 reviews Ellery Queen Crippen & Landru Publishers, 1999 A must for all Queen fanatics! There's been far too little written about Ellery Queen--truly the master of American detective fiction. This book from Crippen and Landru is a great step forward. In addition to the full outline of Dannay and Lee's final but never finished novel "The Tragedy of Errors," there's also a selection of EQ short stories and best yet, a collection of appreciations and essays by collaborators and ...             13 to the Gallows John Dickson Carr, Val Gielgud Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2008 Never before published! Four plays written during the early 1940s, two by John Dickson Carr alone and two in collaboration with the BBC s Val Gielgud. -- Inspector Silence Takes the Air is set during World War II at emergency BBC studios in a provincial town. There, a murder takes place -- and the weapon disappears. -- In Thirteen to the Gallows, also set in a BBC studio, a woman falls to her death from a tower-- it is murder, but no one ...             Banner Deadlines: The Impossible Files of Senator Brooks U. Banner (Crippen & Landru Lost Classics)3 reviews Joseph Commings Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2004 THE GREAT SENATOR THIS ARE SHORT STORIES OF LOCKED ROOM MURDERS AND MYSTERIES, FROM THE GOLDEN AGE. ALL ARE VERY GOOD, AND THE READER WILL HAVE HOURS OF FUN. ANOTHER GREAT BOOK FROM CRIPPENLANDRU.             Kisses of Death: A Nathan Heller Casebook5 reviews Max Allan Collins Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2001 Another Winner for Collins and Heller. Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane aren't writing anything new anymore, alas! Be that as it may, Sweetheart, if you are in the mood for some classic private eye fiction - and what self-respecting mystery fan isn't - then look no further than KISSES OF DEATH by Max Allan Collins. "Prolific" is a word that doesn't even begin to describe Collins' astonishing output in fields ...             The Newtonian Egg and Other Cases of Rolf le Roux (Crippen & Landru Lost Classics,) Peter Godfrey Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2002 SOUTH AFRICAN SLEUTHING Peter Godfrey (1917-1992), a South African journalist and short-story writer, created one of the most imaginative of modern sleuths, Rolf le Roux, called "Oom Rolf" by his nephew, Lieutenant Joubert of the Johannesburg police. In the ten stories in this collection, first published between 1948 and 1986, le Roux investigates such riddles as the man who can't remember 52 minutes of his life, an egg which becomes filled ...             The Iron Angel: And Other Tales of the Gypsy Sleuth1 review Edward D. Hoch Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2003 GREAT GYPSY INVESTIGATIONS One of the less known caracthers of Hoch, he has a dignity and humanity more strong that velvet or the others. The plots are good and will keep you wondering. Buy it!             The Old Spies Club and Other Intrigues of Rand2 reviews Edward D. Hoch Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2001 Old Spies Club I have read several stories from this series in EQMM in the past and enjoyed them. Each time I have a new EQMM issue in hand, the first thing I do is look for one of Hoch's stories. The day the book arrived I started on the first story and kept reading. It was like eating peanuts.... I had to read them all. Edward D. Hoch is very clever and I like his re-occuring characters. If you haven't ...             The Detections of Francis Quarles (Lost Classics)2 reviews Julian Symons Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2006 Absolutely lovely detective short stories I'm not much for gory, long-winded mystery stories. As a lover of Ellery Queen and Issac Asimov short stories (puzzles, play-fair-with reader plots), this collection by Julian Symons is a real gem. Francis Quarles is Mr. Symons' series detective, and it's fun to read along to see if one can ferret out the villain before the concluding sentences. Highly recommended.             The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries (Crippen & Landru Lost Classics) Rafael Sabatini, Jesse F. Knight Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2006 SWORDPLAY AND MYSTERY Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950) is best-known for his swashbuckling historical tales of adventure and derring-do. Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, and Scaramouche made his name world-famous. However, not as well-known is that Sabatini wrote a number of first-rate mystery stories, too. Unlike today with its forensic evidence, DNA testing and other high-tech gadgetry, mysteries of past eras relied on logic and deduction ...             The Spotted Cat and Other Mysteries from Inspector Cockrill's Casebook (Lost Classics Ser)1 review Christianna Brand Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2002 The Spotted Cat & other mysteries As a fan of Christianna Brand and Inspector Cotterill in particular it was a great pleasure to be able read these (to me) unknown stories from the Golden Age of Detection - my period.             The Verdict of Us All; Stories by the Detection Club for H.R.F. Keating Peter Lovesey; P.D. James; Colin Dexter Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2006 Members of London s famed Detection Club have joined together to honor one of their own H.R.F. Keating, historian of the genre, winner of the Gold Dagger (for best novel) and the Diamond Dagger (for Lifetime Achievement), and creator of one of the greatest fictional sleuths, Inspector Ganesh Ghote. The Detection Club was founded in 1930 by Anthony Berkeley. Its first Honorary President was G.K. Chesterton, to be succeeded by such ...             The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime Peter Lovesey Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2001 The Washington Post described Peter Lovesey's crime fiction as "ingenious ? irresistible ? wickedly clever." In "The Sedgemoor Strangler," a serial killer leaves a naked corpse among the reeds, and a young waitress gradually comes to suspect that she is the next victim. Another serial killer terrifies a nineteenth-century housewife in the shocking, twisting tale of "Dr Death." 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