The Crime Club

Many classic and popular works of detective and mystery fiction had their first U.S. editions published via the Crime Club, including all 50 books of The Saint by Leslie Charteris (1928-1983).

The imprint also published first editions in Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu series.

The Crime Club returned on the Mutual Broadcasting System as a half-hour radio series with adaptations from the Doubleday imprint.

In 1937, Universal Pictures made a deal with Crime Club and were granted the right to select four of their yearly published novels to adapt into films.

[2] The first film in the series was The Westland Case, based on the Jonathan Latimer novel Headed for a Hearse.