Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Friday, June 28, 2013

Murder Gone Mad

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Philip MacDonald’s 1931 crime novel Murder Gone Mad is an interesting early example of a sub-genre that would eventually come to dominate...
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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Finders Keepers

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Finders Keepers , published in 1940, was one of Geoffrey Homes’ mystery novels featuring private detective Humphrey Campbell. Daniel Mai...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

The Mind-Reader

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Max Rittenberg’s The Mind-Reader is yet another entry in the psychic detective sub-genre, and it emphasises once again just how surprisin...
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Thursday, June 13, 2013

The Chronicles of Addington Peace

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B. Fletcher Robinson’s The Chronicles of Addington Peace is a fairly obscure but quite entertaining 1905 collection of detective stories. ...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

The Lost City

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Joseph E. Badger Jr’s The Lost City (or The Lost City of the Aztecs as the title appears in some editions) is an 1898 lost world tale. L...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

The Mystery of Hunting’s End

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Mignon Eberhart (1899-1996) had an extraordinarily long career as a crime writer. Her first mystery was published in 1929; she wrote her 5...
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

E. Phillips Oppenheim's The Great Secret

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E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was in his time one of the most successful thriller writers in Britain. He wrote around 150 novels, incl...
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