Reduced Prices on Some Langtail Press Titles $.99-$3.99 (Amazon/Kobo - post #39))

[NightBird]

You're welcome!

I'm reading The Murder of My Aunt now and it's really funny.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by NightBird

You're welcome!

I'm reading The Murder of My Aunt now and it's really funny.

That's next on my list. I've burned through all the John Dickson Carr & Elizabeth Ferrars, and most of the Anthony Berkeley.
Great fun!

[NightBird]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

That's next on my list. I've burned through all the John Dickson Carr & Elizabeth Ferrars, and most of the Anthony Berkeley.
Great fun!

Wow you're way ahead of me.

Kind of OT, but this guy is really cracking me up. I thought the narrator (the nephew) was a nut, but the aunt is just as bad. I can't imagine what direction this thing is going to take.

I was reading about Hull at the Langtail Press website and this pretty much says it all:

A bold experimenter, Hull often used the first person and peopled his books with unpleasant characters. Although dealing with murder, his novels are generally not of the ordinary detective nature; Hull instead specialized in unusual approaches to narrative. An intriguing and innovative crime novelist...

(My bolding)

And this was only his first book.

[NightBird]

More price reductions at Amazon. Yay! Almost all of them have now been reduced to either $6.39 or $3.99, with a couple of more $2.39.

Anthony Berkeley

Death in the House $3.99

Product Description
Lord Wellacombe, Secretary of State for India, dies whilst giving a speech to introduce a new bill on the floor of the House of Commons. His untimely demise looks like a stroke, but is it mere coincidence that a threat on his life had been made? The bill needs to be passed, but is anyone brave enough to defy the threats and risk potential murder?

http://www.amazon.com/Death-in-the-H...881592&sr=1-28

Jumping Jenny $6.39

Product Description
A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY. Roger and Molly Dane have something of a surprise in their new house. When Roger explores the basement on return from their honeymoon, he discovers something odd with the flooring. Hoping to find buried treasure, he digs up the body of a woman instead. Chief Inspector Moresby and Roger Sheringham are then left with the task of discovering who the lady was, how she came to be there, and who shot her in the back of the head.

http://www.amazon.com/Murder-in-the-...883467&sr=1-43

The Poisoned Chocolates Case $6.39

Product Description
ROGER SHERINGHAM'S MOST FAMOUS CASE. In 1920s London, six members of the Crime Circle set out to solve a murder that has baffled Scotland Yard. Equipped with all of the facts, as told to them by Chief Inspector Moresby, club president Roger Sheringham and his armchair detectives pool their collective talents to formulate theories about the death of Mrs. Joan Bendix by nitrobenzene poisoning. Over six successive nights, each member puts forward a plausible theory, but will any of them be able to reveal the truth?

http://www.amazon.com/The-Poisoned-C...881592&sr=1-34

John Dickson Carr

He Who Whispers $6.39

Product Description
A DR GIDEON FELL MYSTERY. Outside the little French city of Chartres, industrialist Howard Brookes is found dying on the parapet of an old stone tower. Evidence shows that it was impossible for anyone to have entered at the time of the murder, however someone must have, for the victim was discovered stabbed in the back. Who could have done it? And where did they go? When no one is convicted, the mystery remains unsolved for years until a series of coincidences brings things to a head in post-war England, where amateur sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell is on the scene to work out what really happened.

http://www.amazon.com/He-Who-Whisper...882835&sr=1-42

She Died a Lady $6.39

Product Description
A SIR HENRY MERRIVALE MYSTERY. A suicide pact was just the sort of notion that would appeal to Rita Wainwright. Her notorious love affair with the young American actor, Barry Sullivan, was flamboyant enough to warrant a dramatic ending, so when the two of them vanished over a cliff one rainy night, leaving only a farewell note for Rita’s husband and a pair of footprints to the edge, no one doubted that it was suicide. No one, that is, but Doctor Luke, Rita’s old family doctor and one of the few people in the seaside village of Lyncombe who genuinely liked her. When amateur detective Sir Henry Merrivale, who is in the district having his portrait done by a local artist, agrees to investigate, the questions start piling up. But what of it? Are the doctor’s doubts without merit, or was there a more sinister plot at play? It takes the blustering, rampaging H.M. to solve this baffling mystery.

http://www.amazon.com/She-Died-a-Lad...882835&sr=1-44

And So to Murder $6.39

Product Description
A SIR HENRY MERRIVALE MYSTERY. No one expected a clergyman’s daughter from East Roystead to author a scandalous bestseller, but when Monica Stanton published Desire she quickly got hired at Albion Films. Expecting to adapt her own work, she is instead assigned to help scriptwriter William Cartwright adapt his latest detective novel. Almost immediately, a series of mysterious attempts on her life begin, and the flamboyant Sir Henry Merrivale is called in to investigate. But can he see through the intrigue to seek out the perpetrator before it’s too late?

http://www.amazon.com/And-So-To-Murd...882835&sr=1-46

The Problem of the Green Capsule $6.39

Product Description
A DR GIDEON FELL MYSTERY. In the quaint English village of Sodbury Cross, pretty Marjorie Wills is suspected of poisoning chocolates in the local confectionary shop. Her uncle, the wealthy Marcus Chesney, believes eyewitnesses are unreliable. To prove his point, he sets up a clever test in front of three witnesses and a camera. They are asked to watch a staged series of events, during which a masked man enters the room to ‘poison’ Chesney by feeding him a large green capsule. As expected, the experiment concludes and no one can agree on what took place, except that Marcus Chesney is dead… How is that possible? And who is the culprit? It takes Dr. Gideon Fell to unravel this Golden Age classic.

http://www.amazon.com/Problem-Green-...6876819&sr=1-8

The Burning Court $6.39

Product Description
A classic tale combining hints of the supernatural and an ‘impossible’ murder. The death of Miles Despard looks simple enough. But then how does the housekeeper see a woman walk through a wall? And how could someone walk through a door that had been bricked up two hundred years ago? To all intents and purposes, it looks as if someone has come from the past to commit the murder, but could that really be the case? Surely not…

http://www.amazon.com/The-Burning-Co...877444&sr=1-17

Elizabeth Ferrars

I, Said The Fly $3.99

Product Description
One day in the spring of 1941, Kay Bryant walked along a bombed London street in which she had rented a room before the war. She had come to see what the blitz had done to Little Carberry Street, and now that No. 10 had vanished completely, there was a chance she might be able to forget some of the horror associated with the house, and at last blot out its grim memories of murder. It all began when a gun was found hidden under the floorboards – a gun which had been used in the murder of the room’s previous occupant. The police were convinced that the murderer would be found among the inhabitants of No. 10, yet to Kay this seemed impossible, for all of them were her friends. At the time, each of them appeared to think it was someone else, and there was a case for any of them to have done it. But one of them knew too much, and a further death took place. In present day, reunited with Inspector Cory among the ruins, Kay vividly relived those days of suspicion. For she knew one thing the other tenants didn’t. Did Inspector Cory know it too?

http://www.amazon.com/I-Said-the-Fly...883177&sr=1-21

Designs on Life $3.99

Product Description
English crime writer Ferrars proves that she is also an accomplished story writer with stories that have the qualities of the classic short story.

(9 short stories)

http://www.amazon.com/Designs-on-Lif...881592&sr=1-27

The March Hare Murders $3.99

Product Description
A murder shocks the sleepy English village of Wellford. Professor Verinder is dead, and the only witness is left injured without catching sight of the killer. The obvious suspect is David Obeney, an unstable man who has only recently arrived in the village to stay with his sister. Known to be openly hostile toward the Professor, David is the owner of the murder weapon and had allegedly been seen on the road to the crime scene that day. But was David’s hatred motive enough to murder, or is he being set up to take the blame?

http://www.amazon.com/The-March-Hare...878320&sr=1-41

Rehearsals for Murder $6.39

Product Description
Toby Dyke, saturnine journalist, gets a mysterious call to investigate the death of Lou Capell (who had spent the previous night at his flat). While Toby and his companion, George, try and work out who is setting the fantastic murder traps that keep popping up around the place, the questions pile up. As Toby gets closer to the crime, he eventually puts all of the pieces of the jigsaw together, but will it lead him to the correct answer?

http://www.amazon.com/Rehearsals-for...877444&sr=1-18

Give A Corpse a Bad Name $6.39

Product Description
On a cold winter’s night, a man is run over while lying drunk in the middle of a Devon lane. Driving the car is local resident Anna Milne, an attractive widow from South Africa. It could be an unfortunate accident, but strange coincidence hints at more. For the dead man also comes from South Africa. And he has Anna Milne's address in his pocket… In conjunction with the police, it is Toby Dyke, ex-reporter and man of no fixed occupation, who investigates the curious circumstance of the stranger’s death.

http://www.amazon.com/Give-Corpse-Ba...882704&sr=1-40

Richard Hull

The Murder of My Aunt $3.99

Product Description
In the beautiful Welsh countryside, Edward Powell is keeping a detailed account of his attempts to do away with his aunt. Of course, the murder of his only living relative is a preposterous notion, but that is exactly what this rather affected young man intends to do. Looked at strictly from Edward’s point of view there is some excuse for malice, but on the other hand his wealthy aunt has every reason to feel unfriendly toward him.

http://www.amazon.com/Murder-My-Aunt...877782&sr=1-27

Fredric Brown

The Dead Ringer $3.99

Product Description
In most murder cases, the setting stays put, if nothing else. But when murder comes to visit the J.C. Hobart travelling carnival, the entire operation has moved town before Captain Weiss can gather any tangible leads. For young Ed Hunter, the case throws him together with a gorgeous redhead from the posing show, but as another murder occurs, and then a third, he and his Uncle Am find their hands full with more than just their ball game concession. In a strange atmosphere of freak shows, show girls, and an escaped chimpanzee, Ed and Uncle Am take it upon themselves to find the killer on the loose – a killer who chooses his victims according to size.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Dead-Ringe...877782&sr=1-28

The Deep End $3.99

The story starts with the death of a child at an amusement park. Immediately, the situation sparks the classic ‘could it be an accident? Of course not…’ and it isn’t long before newspaperman Sam Evans begins to sense that something is wrong. But when he starts to link this death with other apparent accidents in the town, is his obsession taking him too far?

http://www.amazon.com/The-Deep-End-e...884778&sr=1-14

Ellery Queen

Halfway House $6.39

Product Description
Inside a run-down shack on the banks of the Delaware River, married Philadelphia door-to-door salesman Joe Wilson lies dying in a cheap, blood-spattered suit, stabbed through the heart by an assailant he describes with his last breath as a mysterious veiled woman. So begins master detective Ellery Queen's strangest case ever. For Joe Wilson is not one man, but two, each married secretly to a different wife — and in his other life, as New York millionaire Joseph Kent Gimball, he has just changed the beneficiary of a million-dollar life insurance policy. With painstaking brilliance Ellery Queen sifts through a plethora of clues to solve the riddle of the Halfway House murder, beginning with the most important question of all: Whom did the murderer think she was killing, impoverished Wilson or millionaire Gimball? And why?

http://www.amazon.com/Halfway-House-...881592&sr=1-31

The Door Between $6.39

Product Description
When Ellery Queen first meets the award-winning novelist Karen Leith, it is at a party held to celebrate her most recent prize in literature. The next time he hears of her, she is dead — murdered, so the police suspect, by the daughter of her fiancé, the eminent cancer researcher Dr. John MacClure. With no other suspects and only circumstantial evidence at hand, master detective Ellery Queen delves into the reclusive writer’s past to uncover the startling method and motive of an intricate crime.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Door-Betwe...876819&sr=1-11

The Devil to Pay $3.99

Product Description
When Hollywood bigwig Solly Spaeth is murdered, thousands cheer. He is a most popular corpse, for Solly’s stock manipulations have ruined many, including his partner. A cut and dried case — or so it appears. Enter master detective Ellery Queen, whose embarrassing questions uncover a maze of conflicting alibis and motives, and ultimately reveal a deadly face lurking beneath the glittering mask of Tinseltown.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Devil-to-P...877782&sr=1-32

Joan Fleming

Young Man, I Think You're Dying $2.39

Product Description
W. Sledge is a successful young criminal who has achieved too much, too soon. Living in a pleasant council flat in a London tower block, he owns a Jaguar, receives unemployment benefit and keeps an underage mistress. In his own eyes, W. Sledge has everything, until a routine robbery goes too far. The result is murder, and when the crime incites latent psychopathic tendencies, he murders again. As his path intertwines with a runaway girl and his childhood friend, this award-winning story comes to an immoral but extraordinary climax.

http://www.amazon.com/Young-Think-Yo...6884479&sr=1-9

When I Grow Rich $3.99

Winner of the 1962 Gold Dagger Award - British Crime Writers’ Association

Product Description
SET IN ISTANBUL, THIS THRILLING TALE CONVEYS THE MYSTERY AND MAGNETISM OF THE OLD IMPERIAL CITY AT THE CROSSROADS OF EUROPE AND ASIA. Nuri bey is a Turkish philosopher and scholar who lives for his books. An innocent and dreamy man, he yearns to go to Oxford, but with his relatively poor background it’s a dream that may never be realised without the help of his wealthy mentor, Madame Miasma. When she asks him to deliver a parcel to a friend of hers at the airport, Nuri bey obliges, and events bring him in touch with a side of life that is dark and dangerous. A security guard is shot, and Nuri bey flees the scene, because the last thing this philosopher wants is to be involved with a nefarious crime in a country where convicted murderers are hanged in public…

http://www.amazon.com/When-I-Grow-Ri...877782&sr=1-34

Gavin Black

No descriptions available on these books.

The Cold Jungle $2.39

http://www.amazon.com/The-Cold-Jungl...6884479&sr=1-7

Suddenly, at Singapore $3.99

http://www.amazon.com/Suddenly-at-Si...878320&sr=1-42

A Dragon for Christmas $3.99

http://www.amazon.com/A-Dragon-for-C...881592&sr=1-30

A Time for Pirates $3.99

http://www.amazon.com/A-Time-for-Pir...883177&sr=1-18

P.M. Hubbard

The Holm Oaks $3.99

Product Description
Jake Haddon inherits a house from his uncle. On first viewing it seems innocuous enough, but as the story develops there is a mounting sense of doom. It is obvious that something horrific is going to happen, but not quite what or to whom. This tale of obsession has a pace and momentum that drag the reader to the end.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Holm-Oaks-...881203&sr=1-11


Freeman Wills Crofts

Fatal Venture $3.99

Product Description
AN INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERY. Three men come up with a scheme to make money by cruising round the British Isles in an old transatlantic liner. All appears to be going well until one of them is found dead. Many of the passengers and crew would appear to have motive to kill the man, but all of them would seem to have an alibi. It takes�@the full extent�@of Inspector French's analytical skills to unpick the crime.

http://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Venture-...881425&sr=1-16

The Loss of Jane Vosper $6.39

Product Description
AN INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERY. The Jane Vosper is plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic by a series of explosions in her hold. It is clear that something is wrong, as there is no innocent explanation of the cause. The only possibility appears to be that someone has sunk the ship for the insurance money (either for the goods on board or the ship itself). The loss of the goods will cause a problem for The Land and Sea Insurance Co., and they decide to look into matters themselves. When their private detective goes missing, Inspector French of Scotland Yard is called in and he decides that the only way to solve the missing person case is to solve the mystery of the Jane Vosper as well. But even he is baffled, until his hard work and assiduous following of the clues leads him to the correct conclusion.

http://www.amazon.com/Loss-Jane-Vosp...881592&sr=1-33

Inspector French's Greatest Case $6.39

Product Description
AN INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERY. At the offices of Duke and Peabody in London’s Hatton Gardens, the body of old Mr Gething is discovered along with an open safe. The diamonds that he had locked away, however, are gone. It is a perplexing case, and obviously one for Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard. As the meticulous Inspector puts his full powers behind the investigation, he crisscrosses the continent from London to many locales of Europe. In pursuit of an unknown criminal, will French be able to deduce just who has the diamonds?

http://www.amazon.com/Inspector-Fren...882835&sr=1-45

[SensualPoet]

WOW! Thanks for taking the trouble to post such a complete list.

My experience is the titles are very well proof-read and formatted and, at the lower prices, great value. Elizabeth Ferrars is a wonderful discovery for me and I will be buying more of hers.

[NightBird]

Originally Posted by SensualPoet

WOW! Thanks for taking the trouble to post such a complete list.

My experience is the titles are very well proof-read and formatted and, at the lower prices, great value. Elizabeth Ferrars is a wonderful discovery for me and I will be buying more of hers.

Well, it was the craziest thing. I must have happened on them while they were in the middle of changing their prices. Every time I went back to recheck there were more that had been lowered, so I kept editing and re-editing this post. There are only about 5 left that are $8.00.

The books all seem to be pretty short, so I really think these newer prices are more fair. (Some of them are under 200 pages.)

I can't wait to get going on Ferrars, because I think I am going to really like her, too!

[poohbear_nc]

Ferrars is a marvelous read!

Off to complete my Berkeley collection!

[I'm hoping new titles will be appearing shortly!]

[NightBird]

[I'm hoping new titles will be appearing shortly!

Me, too!

Well, I got all the ones that were $3.99 and under, so I will be starting on Ferrars shortly. lol

[wyndslash]

i assume these mystery series can be read in any order? i'm checking out the Dr. Fell books in my university library, but they only have some in the series.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by wyndslash

i assume these mystery series can be read in any order? i'm checking out the Dr. Fell books in my university library, but they only have some in the series.

Yes - although the characters sometimes refer to earlier cases, they can be read in any order.

[sufue]

Woo-hoo! What fun! I bought a bunch more.

I'm glad to see some old classics come available at reasonable enough prices that I can talk myself into replacing my DTB's. And now I have an excuse to re-read some of them too.

I hope these are working out financially for Langtail at the newer prices, because I'd sure like to see more of them!

[SensualPoet]

I just added another Ferrars! Thanks!

[NightBird]

I hope these are working out financially for Langtail at the newer prices, because I'd sure like to see more of them!

Me, too! I doubt if they were selling well at $8.00, so $3.99 has to be better than zero. I doubt if they are getting much publicity, either, other than here. lol

You're welcome, SP. I think I am going to start with I, Said the Fly.

[SensualPoet]

I bought the $3.99 I, Said the Fly yesterday, too. So today it is: #35,504 Paid in Kindle Store.

Contrast to Ferrar's $6.39 Give a Corpse a Bad Name ... #179,586 Paid in Kindle Store.

or even I, Said the Fly in paper at $14.95 ... #3,254,128 in Books.

So, there's an exercise in price elasticity!

[sufue]

Originally Posted by SensualPoet

I bought the $3.99 I, Said the Fly yesterday, too. So today it is: #35,504 Paid in Kindle Store.

Contrast to Ferrar's $6.39 Give a Corpse a Bad Name ... #179,586 Paid in Kindle Store.

or even I, Said the Fly in paper at $14.95 ... #3,254,128 in Books.

So, there's an exercise in price elasticity!

Now if only more publishers could figure that out! It's not really THAT hard...