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Day 1 releases: The Argosy Library #171-180
Dr. Skull
Written by Lewis Clay; cover by Rudolph Belarski; introduction by Will Murray
When a motorman runs a red signal, a broker hands a stranger ten thousand dollars, and the Mayor speaks a ransom’s ultimatum with another man’s voice, New York thinks it’s facing a spree of madness. It’s not madness. It’s Dr. Skull.
Bob Larkin, a young Madison Avenue copywriter, and Paula Lansdowne, daughter of the celebrated psychologist Alfred Lansdowne, are drawn into a campaign of psychic terror that will shred the city’s nerves. As the killings mount and officials falter, Lansdowne confronts a darker possibility: an occult mastery of the mind unlike any modern hypnotism, wielded by a criminal who sees through other people’s eyes and speaks through their mouths. With the city’s power centers under threat, the trio must race past police bluster and public panic, trace a vanished genius to the heart of an ancient brotherhood, and find a way to fight a will that turns sane men into instruments of murder.
Equal parts detective procedural, pulp thriller, and occult thriller, Dr. Skull is a high‑voltage serial thriller about power, persuasion, and the price a city pays when someone learns how to move its people like chessmen.
404 pages | $34.95 softcover | $49.95 hardcover
Abbey of the Damned: The Complete Cases of Mike and Trixie, Volume 3
Written by T.T. Flynn; illustrated by Joseph A. Farren
Return to the razor‑edged world of Mike Harris and Trixie Meehan in Abbey of the Damned: The Complete Cases of Mike & Trixie, Volume 3 by T.T. Flynn. The Blaine Agency’s sharpest—and maddest—pair tackle three savage, atmospheric puzzles that push their partnership to the limits: the sinister secrets behind Barred Doors, the explosive stakes of Nitro! Nitro!, and the crooked paper trail of The Letters and the Law.
Flynn’s prose is lean, his plotting relentless, and his banter between Mike and Trixie crackles with hard‑boiled charm—the very pattern that helped define the male/female partner detective in the pulps.
These long‑lost gems collect Flynn at the height of his craft: vivid set pieces, merciless twists, and detectives who win by grit, guile, and an unwillingness to let one another get the last word. Fans of classic pulp, noir, and fast, character‑first mysteries will savor this volume—three cases, three nights of white‑knuckle reading, one unforgettable team.
256 pages | $24.95 softcover | $39.95 hardcover
The Death Messenger: The Complete Cases of Jigger Masters, Volume 4
Written by Anthony M. Rud; illustrated by Joseph A. Farren; cover by Lejaren Hiller
Jigger Masters—hard‑nosed, unflappable, and blessed with a nose for the devil’s smallest tracks—returns in The Death Messenger: The Complete Cases of Jigger Masters, Volume 4. Two savage, old‑time pulp mysteries test his wits against theatrical murder, chemical horrors, and crimes that seem to answer to no earthly law.
In “The Death Messenger,” a Long Island estate of eccentric experimenters becomes the stage for a sequence of deaths so ingenious and bizarre that even seasoned troopers call it witchcraft: invisible knives that fly from the dark, an explosion that erases a man from existence, a vapor that eats leather and flesh, and finally, something buried inside a gleaming plaster model that refuses to stay hidden. Masters must cut through crate‑loads of deception—false identities, whispered societies, and vivid misdirection—to find a killer whose art is disappearance itself.
In “A Giant in the Swimming Pool,” the Tegarth brothers’ basement laboratory holds a scientific secret worth killing for: massive centrifuges, sealed tanks of “heavy” water, and a private swimming pool wired into the plant. When an elevator is sabotaged, an explosion rocks the lab and a man is found at the bottom of an emptied tank, the scene engineered to look like an impossible accident. Masters peels back staged scenes, slow‑acting chemistry and hidden plumbing to expose how someone weaponized invention and timing to turn technology into a murder method—and why a lowly night watchman might risk everything to grab the prize.
Lean, atmospheric, and crackling with period detail, The Death Messenger collects two of Rud’s best Jigger Masters cases—detective fiction with the pulpy heart of early‑20th‑century menace.
204 pages | $24.95 softcover | $39.95 hardcover
Box 991: The Complete Cabalistic Cases of Semi Dual, Volume 5
Written by J.U. Giesy & Junius B. Smith
Semi‑Dual—urbane, unnervingly calm, and armed with strange arts as surely as any detective carries a notebook—returns to put occult craft at the service of justice. He is part metaphysician, part magistrate of the moral order: a man who reads thought‑waves as others read footprints, charts the pressure of fate by the stars, and arranges ordinary facts so they point toward the extraordinary truth.
In “Snared,” a plucky woman and a hard‑bitten detective vanish into the city’s underworld. Where policemen see only danger, Semi‑Dual perceives pattern: he moves unseen through Chinatown, lays bait and counter‑bait, and converts a desperate decoy into a rescue no one else could have conceived.
In “Box 991,” a missing hoard and a set of impossible signatures challenge every mundane skill in the book. Semi‑Dual thinks in circles—astrological, forensic, metaphysical—untangling forgery, duplicity, and mechanized trickery with patient, uncanny logic until the hidden method and the hidden moral can both be named.
Two lean, cabalistic thrillers in which detection is as much a matter of the spirit as of the senses—and one indomitable mind reads the world until it yields its secrets.
362 pages | $34.95 softcover | $49.95 hardcover
Blind Trails at Tonto: The Complete Tales of Sheriff Henry, Volume 8
Written by W.C. Tuttle; illustrated by Pete Kuhlhoff; cover by Ray Quigley
Sheriff Henry Harrison Conroy—once a red‑nosed vaudeville headliner, now the unlikeliest lawman in Arizona—prefers a joke to a jawbone, a jug of Frijole Bill’s “prune whiskey” to parade speeches, and a crooked smile to a court docket. But when Tonto City’s streets fill with burned bodies, counterfeit bills, staged kidnappings, and a political campaign that smells of corruption, Henry’s theater instincts become the valley’s greatest advantage.
In three lean, propulsive adventures collected here, Henry matches wits with blackmailers, counterfeiters, and crooked gamblers; protects wayward teachers and honkatonk beauties; and drags a quarreling town toward justice—all while Judge Van Treece, Oscar Johnson, Frijole Bill, Slim Pickins, and the rest of his ragged crew bungle, bluster, and somehow get the job done beside him. Equal parts western grit, comic cunning, and old‑school detective work, Blind Trails at Tonto proves that heroism can wear spats, laugh at danger, and still shoot straighter than its reputation.
Includes the complete tales “Henry the Silent,” “Tracks in the Sand,” and the title story “Blind Trails at Tonto.”
302 pages | $29.95 softcover | $44.95 hardcover
In the Murderer’s Brain: The Complete Cases of the Scientific Club, Volume 3
Written by Ray Cummings; illustrated by Joseph A. Farren, Frank R. Paul, Amos Sewell, and Raymond Wardell
In the Murderer’s Brain collects Ray Cummings’ most ingenious Scientific Club cases, where crimes are unraveled not by chance but by carefully staged experiments. Doctor Adams, Dr. Gregg, Detective Marberry and their circle of specialists treat criminal minds like laboratories: they reconstruct scenes with props and photographs, probe memory with deceptive readings and object arrays, analyze typewriter idiosyncrasies, read clues etched into ashes, and even stage controlled séances and pharmacological tests to separate truth from bluff. The club’s methods are theatrical and precise—a faux crime scene here, a hypnotic suggestion there—yet always designed to exploit one constant: guilt leaves traces the conscious mind cannot hide.
These tales range from heartbreaking mistakes of youth and fatal jealousies to cunning blackmail and calculating murder. In one case, a guilty memory betrays itself when a suspect confuses details after a planted narrative; in another, a burned scrap of paper reveals the name the arsonist thought destroyed; elsewhere, an apparently accidental drowning is solved by careful physics and weight displacement. Beyond the puzzles lie humane meditations on fear, remorse, and how ordinary people fail under extraordinary temptation. Witty, suspenseful, and rigorously plotted, In the Murderer’s Brain is classic detective fiction for readers who love forensic cleverness and moral complexity.
246 pages | $24.95 softcover | $39.95 hardcover
The Legion of the Living Dead: The Complete Cases of Mr. Strang, Volume 2
Written by Carroll John Daly; illustrated by Joseph A. Farren
They called him Mr. Strang—a man with a ledger of sins and a private justice all his own. In Volume 2 of The Legion of the Living Dead: The Complete Cases of Mr. Strang, Carroll John Daly returns to the city’s gutters and gilded clubs for another savage, high‑voltage run of pulp justice.
Here are streets where parole is a business, politicians are bargains, and racketeers buy their freedom with blood. When a battered ledger names the guilty and the prosecutors will not act, Strang assembles a fringe army—men who, having little to lose, will follow his merciless law. Against him stand slick bosses, crooked officials, and trigger men who never miss—and one by one Daly’s terse, relentless chapters pit conscience against corruption, cunning against cruelty.
This volume gathers the hardest of Strang’s cases: a ledger that can topple empires, a bride stalked by vengeance, and the grim, steady machinery of a one‑man vendetta that asks whether the ends ever justify the means. Gritty, moral, and uncomfortably persuasive, these are pulp stories at their fiercest—fast, cold, and impossible to put down.
282 pages | $29.95 softcover | $44.95 hardcover
Written by Fred MacIsaac; illustrated by Roger B. Morrison; cover by Paul Stahr
Roger Thule was a prodigy born old—a lightning calculator and walking encyclopedia whose brilliance has hollowed out his appetite for life. When his celebrated father is found shot dead and a woman’s scented handkerchief is the only clue, Roger is pulled from the brink by an unlikely vow: he will prove he can be as human as he is brilliant. He will win love—and he will unmask a killer.
Torn between cold reason and raw feeling, Roger crosses from study to ring. Under the tutelage of a hard-bitten trainer and the scheming guidance of Dr. Tom Marvin, he learns to move like a boxer and think like a hunter. Eloise Lane, the beautiful actress at the center of the mystery, refuses his easy certainties and forces him to confront the one thing he never studied: the heart. Meanwhile a city of gamblers, brokers, and hired guns closes in, and the fight for a title becomes a fight for life.
Equal parts pulp mystery, courtroom drama and prize-ring spectacle, The Mental Marvel is a ferocious, romantic thriller about genius and guilt, science and savagery—and a young man who must choose which will define him.
306 pages | $29.95 softcover | $44.95 hardcover
The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon: The Complete Cases of the Lady From Hell, Volume 2
Written by Eugene Thomas; illustrated by Joseph A. Farren
Vivian Legrand—the Lady from Hell—is back, and the globe itself trembles at her heels.
In Volume 2 of The Complete Cases of the Lady From Hell, Eugene Thomas gathers the most savage, seductive and ingenious of Vivian’s exploits: from glittering gambling rooms and blood-streaked rooftops to jungle rites beneath a plaited moon. An audacious thief, a cold-blooded strategist and a brilliant actress of danger, Vivian moves like a force of nature, pulling Adrian Wylie—her loyal, skeptical chief of staff—into stakes that would break lesser hearts and lesser heads.
Within these pages: a knifing set‑up that steals a diamond king’s life and fortune; a rooftop heist swapping the Kohinoor Double; a blood‑curdling voodoo midnight that becomes a detonating gambit for escape; and a palace coup where death is a bargaining chip and power is the prize. Fast, lush and unrelenting, these are pulp thrillers drenched in tropical heat, urban shadow and the precise cruelty of a woman who never loses the game.
For readers of vintage noir, globe‑trotting capers, and unforgettable antiheroes—meet the smartest, most dangerous woman in crime fiction.
328 pages | $29.95 softcover | $44.95 hardcover
Murder on the Film: The Complete Cases of Candid Jones, Volume 1
Written by Richard B. Sale; illustrated by Joseph A. Farren
Candid Jones—camera-toting, two‑fisted ex-dick—never really retired. He swapped the badge for a Leica, but the streets don’t care for retirement plans. In these hardboiled pulp tales he snaps the scene, cracks the jaw, and fires the shutter with equal facility, chasing crooked bookies, dirty cops, stolen diamonds and lovers who lie like snakes. From racetrack sabotage and rooftop shootouts to frame-ups that could put an innocent woman in the chair, Candid’s sights are always set on the truth—no matter how noisy or deadly the picture gets.
This volume collects Richard Sale’s mean, witty best: tough-as-nails capers like “The Vanishing Jockey,” “Place Your Bets!,” “Last Race,” and the title piece “Murder on the Film.” The final story, “Flash!,” is a special treat—a crossover with Sale’s other series hero, Daffy Dill, that turns the whole city into a pressroom and a crime scene at once.
Perfect for fans of vintage noir, pulp thrillers, and cinematic detectives—this is classic sleuthing shot in high contrast, grainy and relentless.
246 pages | $24.95 softcover | $39.95 hardcover
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