Books published by publisher Armchair Fiction

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first thriller is Edward Ronns great tale, “They All Ran Away” They all ran away …except Malcom Hunter, the busiest body in town…except Evelyn, his lady—trapped by her dishonest millions and a taste for men alive…except lovely Ferne—a girl unfaithful unto death, who coveted life and large amounts money…except Charlie Danger, who knew the truth and had ways of catching the killer himself, even if an accusatory finger was pointed at him…And Barney Forbes pursued them. He chased them through a labyrinth of horrors…into the borrowed arms of a woman with a wrong-way heart. For Barney’s task was to smash a killer’s grip on justice, and break up a small town murder conspiracy! This double novel’s second tale is a great tale of mystery & murder, “Backfire” by Floyd Mahannah. Pete Mavrey had a serious problem: He had two girls. One of them was the girl he planned on marrying. Her name was Anna, and she was beautiful and sweet—the kind of woman you wanted to raise kids with. The other, though, was Bernice—a sultry, dark-haired beauty and the kind of dame whose sexual electricity could wrap a man around her little finger and make him throw his common sense out the window. However, Bernice had a serious problem: an ex-boyfriend with violent intentions whom she desperately wanted to get rid of. Pete wanted to help her out if he could. But Pete was only kidding that evening when he told her over a nice spaghetti dinner that she could cure her problems by faking her own murder and disappearing. He even gave her all the details on how to do it. That would do the trick. Then again, Pete was only kidding. Unfortunately for Pete Mavrey, Bernice wasn’t, and when the newspaper ran a front-page story detailing Bernice Falknor’s gruesome murder, Pete soon found himself up to his neck in cops and corpses.

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “The Planet Strappers,” written by Raymond Z. Gallun, is a fine tale about the wilds of outer space. They started out as “The Bunch,” a group of student-astronauts in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They wanted off Earth, and they begged, borrowed, and built what they needed to make it all happen. “The Planet Strappers” got what they wanted—a start on the road to the stars. But no one brought up on Earth could have imagined what was waiting for them out there…out there in the blackness of outer space. In “The Planet Strappers,” Rayond Z. Gallun has written a story of the Day After Tomorrow—a story of what it will be like for the men who cross the space frontier. A story that some of us will be living…someday.

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. Here is an all time science fiction classic, “Spacehounds of IPC” written by one of the founding fathers of space opera, Edward E. “Doc” Smith. Escape from the Jovians or meet certain death! When the Inter-planetary Corporation’s top-of-the-line spaceliner Arcturus lifted off for Mars on what everyone on board considered a standard planetary run, little did they realize they would soon be under attack by unknown alien beings. And before they knew it, they were soon hurtling toward the distant moons of Jupiter! Then, after a crashing landing on Ganymede, the survivors faced death at the hands of the Jovian satellite’s terrifying creatures. However, they were challenged with not only staying alive, but with reconstructing their spacecraft in order to ensure a safe return to Earth. But they soon faced another danger—the intelligent, warring aliens from within the Jovian system. It seemed that death was almost inevitable…

Lucas Trask of Traskon was not an admirer of the Space Vikings; raiding, pillage, and killing were not avocations to his liking. And on the long-awaited day of his marriage to the lovely Lady Elaine, all unpleasant thoughts seemed far away. But Lucas was to be suddenly awakened to a world of chaotic violence, where murder followed murder, and the only motive to rival avarice was revenge. For Lucas, the old life was dead, and the new life he had chosen led out into the trackless realms of galactic space and the surfaces of pillaged planets with one objective always in mind—the death of a renegade spaceman. SPACE VIKING is an epic of interstellar adventure that is remembered as one of H. Beam Piper’s best works.

Armchair Fiction presents Masters of Science Fiction, Volume Six: "The Moon is Green and Other Tales” featuring the works of Fritz Leiber. Imagine one’s surprise… To awaken one morning and find bevys of bread floating high in the air. To discover a forsaken battery whose gravitic properties are, to say the least, confounding. To have an alien visitor enter your bathroom and never come out. Often regarded as a leader in fantasy and horror, Leiber was gifted with a fertile and agile genius that allowed him to write in many genres. This collection of his sci-fi short stories is teeming with fabulous, quirky scenarios of possible future events…and maybe even events that could happen now. This great collection is Volume Six in Armchair Fiction’s “Masters of Science Fiction” series.

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “The Galaxy Primes,” written by E. E. “Doc” Smith, is taut sci-fi novel about the wilds of outer space. It was Earth’s first Starship. It was called the Pleiades, and it was the first starship ever launched from Earth. Experimental in nature, it could travel anywhere almost instantaneously. However, where it might actually end up wasn’t always predictable. And whether it could even return to Earth safely remained to be seen! Travel through the wilds of deep space with four of the most unique space adventurers you will ever encounter in this great novel by one of sci-fi’s master craftsmen, E. E. “Doc” Smith.

Armchair Fiction presents Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 440 pages or more of whodunit thrills. This double novel features two classics by the queen of murder mysteries, Agatha Christie. The first tale is a Hercule Poirot thriller, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles.” There were not less than seven people at the fashionable Styles estate in Essex who might have felt a certain degree of comfort if Emily Inglethorp were more dead than alive. There were not less than seven motives and no fewer than seven apparently foolproof alibis when the wealthy lady was found murdered in her bed. So this led to the ultimate question—had the perfect crime been committed? Left to less perceptible eyes than those of the scrupulous M. Hercule Poirot, a monstrously malignant murderer might have gone unpunished. But slowly and surely, Poirot, the master Belgian detective, began to carve a path toward the identity of the killer. “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” marked the first appearance of Agatha Christie’s beloved Belgain sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Over the years, Christie’s dogged passion for detail and her cool perception of character made her an unparalleled creator of literary crime. Our second Christie tale is another great one, “The Secret Adversary.” Tommy Beresford and Prudence “Tuppence” Cowley are unemployed, broke, and seeking some adventure in their young lives. A chance meeting between these two old friends becomes a destined partnership when they create “The Young Adventurers, Ltd.,” where they are “willing to do anything, and go anywhere.” But they seem destined to get more excitement than bargained for when the duo is asked to take on the case of the missing Jane Finn, whose disappearance with highly secretive government papers spells potential disaster! Twists and turns abound with Tommy and Turppence on the case, as they soon find more thrills and danger than they ever dreamed of. Joined by American millionaire Julius P. Hershimmer, they follow the clues into a mystery embroiled with wartime intrigue, murder, and the sinister Mr. Brown.

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “The Moon Pool” is written by one of the great authors of early science fiction and fantasy, Abraham Merritt. An ancient horror comes to life. There was a forsaken island in the South Pacific—Ponape was its name. It was an island was filled with ancient mystery. During the hours of darkness, the full moon illuminated the decadent ruins of an elder civilization—a civilization that vanished long ago. But one day, freed from the depths of the ocean, came the Dweller, a glittering, mysterious, timeless force of incomprehensible horror, whose radiant beauty stalked the South Pacific, taking all human beings in its path. But an international expedition, led by daring Americans Walter Goodwin and Larry O’Keefe, raced to save those who had fallen victim to the Dweller. But in doing so they stumbled upon a lost race, a subhuman species of frog-like creatures, and a beautiful she-devil who was the embodiment of evil. “The Moon Pool” is an amazing tale, told by one of the masters of “lost world” novels, Abraham Merritt.