Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Rex Stout’s The League of Frightened Men

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The League of Frightened Men was Rex Stout’s second Nero Wolfe mystery novel, published in 1935. And it has a few features that make it s...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The Ka of Gifford Hillary

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Dennis Wheatley’s The Ka of Gifford Hillary , published in 1956, is one of the “black magic” novels for which he was most famous although ...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

Demon Caravan

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Mention French Foreign Legion adventure stories and most people will think of P. C. Wren but in fact the grand master of that particular g...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Winston Graham's Marnie

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Winston Graham's 1961 novel Marnie is best know today as the source of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 movie of the same title. The movie was...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Sax Rohmer's The Dream Detective

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Psychic or occult detective stories enjoyed a considerable vogue towards the end of the 19th century and for the first quarter of the 20th...
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Monday, July 9, 2012

Sir John Hawkwood: A Tale of the White Company in Italy

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Sir John Hawkwood and his famous White Company have inspired quite a few writers, including most famously Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But so p...
Saturday, July 7, 2012

Twelve Women Detective Stories

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Twelve Women Detective Stories is an Oxford University Press paperback featuring twelve stories written between 1861 and 1950, all featu...
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