Dead in Bed & Bones Will Tell

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is by one of the masters of hardboiled mystery fiction, Day Keene’s “Dead in Bed.” Have love will bleed! It was one of those mornings. After spending the entire night chasing a Jamaican giant, a retired British colonel and two blonde nymphos, Johnny Aloha had barely gotten to bed—alone—when Tom Hanson from Homicide called. “Who were the muggers who slugged and robbed you?” Aloha told him he didn’t know. “Why do they want to kill you?” He passed that one up, too. It was soon a story of more bullets, bottles, beds, and babes than ever happened to any private eye, Hawaiian or otherwise! Incidentally, Aloha means hello, goodbye, and “much love” in island parlance, but Aloha’s presence usually meant murder…anytime, anywhere! The second novel is by the great mystery writer, Bruno Fisher, who will send shivers up your spine with “Bones Will Tell.” A dead body, an ugly hunchback, and a sinister mansion. These were the ingredients to a night of terror thrust upon two young kids who were just out to have some fun and mischief on a moonlit summer evening. Old Miss Tait’s crumbling mansion was their target. She lived there in solitude with her hunchback servant, Klink. The mansion grounds were covered with wild, untended lilacs, and Joey Woodward knew a few of them wouldn’t be missed. But when he and Nancy North (absolutely the cutest girl in school) climbed the wall into the mansion grounds, they stumbled into a series of events that ended with dead bodies strewn all over the place; and each dreadful discovery sent them reeling in ever-increasing terror. Before long they found themselves trudging, nearly panic-stricken, through a dark swamp in the black of the night, where they soon stumbled upon the ultimate horror. And there was no question in Joey and Nancy’s minds—if they didn’t watch out, they’d be next…