Vintage Pop Fictions

pulp novels, trash fiction, detective stories, adventure tales, spy fiction, etc from the 19th century up to the 1970s

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Once is not Enough, by Jacqueline Susann

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I’ve always loved trash cinema but in the past year I’ve discovered that trash fiction holds just as many delights. And fiction doesn’t get ...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Monsieur Lecoq, by Émile Gaboriau

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Émile Gaboriau was one of the pioneers of detective fiction. In the late 1860s and early 1870s, before his untimely death, he wrote a strin...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Raffles, A Thief in the Night, by E. W. Hornung

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Raffles, A Thief in the Night , published in 1905, was E. W. Hornung’s third and final collection of stories about A. J. Raffles, celebrated...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

The Devil Rides Out, by Dennis Wheatley

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Dennis Wheatley is one of those authors who has gone from topping bestseller lists to complete oblivion in the space of less than 30 years. ...
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Sunday, January 2, 2011

The Mystery of the Yellow Room, by Gaston Leroux

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Gaston Leroux is of course best known as the author of Phantom of the Opera but he was actually quite prolific. He write quite a few myster...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Richard Marsh’s The Beetle

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Richard Marsh’s The Beetle is certainly one very bizarre and outrageous book.  It’s included in Victorian Villainies , which include...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Baby Moll, by John Farris

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John Farris has written an enormous quantity of fiction of various types during his lifetime. He started his writing career at a very young ...
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