The Lost Classics Series

Eric Greene (who designed our logo) has joined Crippen & Landru to work on design and publicity, and to develop a new series of short story collections.  The idea behind "Lost Classics" is simple — and tremendously exciting.  There are many authors of the past who wrote excellent short detective tales.  These previously uncollected, and in many cases nearly unknown, stories should be brought to a new generation of readers.  We are locating these works by contacting the authors' heirs, major collectors, and archives of crumbling pulp, digest, and slick magazines.  The first printing of each book will be small — perhaps 400-500 copies, divided between clothbound copies in dustjacket, and trade softcover.  Each will have a cover in full color.  The first of the Lost Classics volumes are listed below:

The Newtonian Egg and Other Cases of Rolf le Roux by Peter Godfrey, the South African expert on impossible crimes. Available.
Murder, Mystery and Malone by Craig Rice, the great mistress of screwball comedy. Available.
The Sleuth of Baghdad by Charles B. Child. The first collection of Inspector Chafik stories, published in Colliers and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine between 1947 and 1969. Available.
Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles by Stuart Palmer. Lost cases solved by the schoolmarm sleuth. Available.
The Spotted Cat and Other Mysteries from Inspector Cockrill's Casebook by Christianna Brand. The complete Cockrill mysteries, including three unpublished stories. Available.
Marksman and Other Stories by William Campbell Gault. The first collection of tales by an author who began in the great pulps and continued with the creation of Joe Puma, one of the greatest modern private eyes. Available.
Karmesin, The World's Greatest Thief - or Most Outrageous Liar by Gerald Kersh. Perhaps the most imaginative crook stories ever written. Available.
The Complete Curious Mr. Tarrant by C. Daly King. The classic 1935 volume, The Curious Mr. Tarrant, plus 4 previously uncollected stories. Available.
The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing by Helen McCloy. The complete short stories about the psychiatric sleuth. Available.
Murder All Kinds by William L. DeAndrea. The collected stories by the 3-time Edgar Winner. Available.
The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham's Casebook by Anthony Berkeley, edited by Tony Medawar and Arthur Robinson. Classic tales from the Golden Age. Available.
Banner Deadlines by Joseph Commings, edited by Robert Adey. Locked rooms and other impossible crimes, solved by Senator Brooks U. Banner.  Now available.
The Danger Zone and Other Stories by Erle Stanley Gardner, edited by Bill Pronzini. Uncollected tales by the creator of Perry Mason.  Now available.
Dr. Poggioli:  Criminologist by T. S. Stribling, edited by Arthur Vidro. Uncollected stories by the Pulitzer Prize winner.  Now available.
The Couple Next Door: Collected Short Mysteries by Margaret Millar, edited by Tom Nolan. Little known stories by a mistress of suspense, and wife of Ross Macdonald. Now available.
Sleuth's Alchemy: Cases of Mrs. Bradley and Others by Gladys Mitchell, edited by Nicholas Fuller. Never reprinted tales by one of the great classic authors. Now available.
Who Was Guilty?:  Two Dime Novels by Phillip S. Warne, edited by Marlena Bremseth. The first detective stories by an African-American. Now available.
Slot-Machine Kelly by Dennis Lynds writing as Michael Collins. Early private-eye stories by one of the greats in the genre. Now available.
The Detections of Francis Quarles by Julian Symons, edited by John Cooper. Classic fairplay detective stories. Now available.
The Evidence of the Sword:  The Mystery Stories of Rafael Sabatini by Rafael Sabatini, edited by Jesse Knight. Long lost mystery tales by one of the world's greatest adventure writers. Now available.
The Casebook of Sidney Zoom by Erle Stanley Gardner, edited by Bill Pronzini. Now available.
The Trinity Cat and Other Mysteries by Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), edited by Martin Edwards and Sue Feder.  Now available.
The Grandfather Rastin Mysteries by Lloyd Biggle Jr. Detection in smalltown America by one of the greatest science-fiction writers. Now available.
Masquerade: Ten Crime Stories by Max Brand, edited by William F. Nolan. Crime and detection by “The King of the Pulps.” Now available.
Dead Yesterday and Other Mysteries by Mignon G. Eberhart, edited by Rick Cypert and Kirby McCauley. Classic detective tales by the Queen of Romantic Suspense. Now available.
The Battles of Jericho by Hugh Pentecost, introduction by S.T. Karnick.
The Minerva Club, The Department of Patterns, and Other Stories by Victor Canning, edited by John Higgins. Now being typeset.
The Casebook of Gregory Hood by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, edited by Joe R. Christopher.
Ten Thousand Blunt Instruments by Philip Wylie, edited by Bill Pronzini.
The Exploits of the Patent Leather Kid by Erle Stanley Gardner, edited by Bill Pronzini.
Duel of Shadows by Vincent Cornier, edited by Mike Ashley.
Author in Search of a Character: The Detections of Miss Phipps by Phyllis Bentley, edited by Marvin Lachman.
Dagobert: Detective of Old Vienna by Balduin Groller, translated by Thomas Riediker.
Author in Search of a Character: The Miss Phipps Mysteries by Phyllis Bentley, edited by Marvin Lachman.

Other titles are under active consideration.  You can contact Eric directly at
Eric@CrippenLandru.com