Sunday, February 27, 2011

Murder Is My Business, by Brett Halliday

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Brett Halliday’s 1945 novel Murder Is My Business is representative of the many hardboiled crime novels of the 30s, 40s and 50s that are no...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The Blackcoats: 'Salem Street, by Paul Féval

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Paul Féval (1816-1887) was a popular and prolific French novelist who dabbbled in a variety of genres from swashbuckling adventure to gothic...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

The Case of the Perjured Parrot, by Erle Stanley Gardner

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The Case of the Perjured Parrot is my first sampling of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason novels. And it’s a pretty enjoyable read. Thi...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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As much as I adore the Sherlock Holmes stories it always saddens me that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s other fiction often gets overlooked. He wr...
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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Vampires of Mars, by Gustave Le Rouge

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The scientific romance was a genre that thrived in both Britain in France from the time of Jules Verne up until roughly the 1920s. It produc...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Fantômas, by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre

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The arch-criminal Fantômas made his first appearance in print in 1911. Fantômas , written by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, was followe...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

The Vampire and the Devil’s Son, by Ponson du Terrail

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Pierre-Alexis Ponson du Terrail enjoyed immense popularity in mid-19th century France. This was the great age of the romans feuilletons , po...