Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

The Haunted Hotel and Other Stories

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English novelist Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was one of the most successful writers of the so-called “sensation novels” which were so popul...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

No Good from a Corpse

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Leigh Brackett (1915-1978) was already enjoying reasonable success as a science fiction writer when in 1944 she decided to try her hand at...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Tiger Standish

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Sydney Horler’s Tiger Standish , published in 1932, is a thriller very much in the mould of Sapper’s Bulldog Drummond novels. Tiger Standi...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Nordenholt’s Million

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Alfred Walter Stewart (1880-1947) was a distiguished British chemist who wrote very successful golden age detective stories under the pseu...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Nick Carter, Detective

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The argument over the title of best-ever series detective could keep us gainfully employed until Doomsday. But when it comes to the detect...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Ghost Stories of Henry James

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Ghost Stories of Henry James is a Wordsworth collection that includes James’ best-known ghostly tale, The Turn of the Screw , plus nine s...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

The Middle Temple Murder

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J. S. Fletcher’s The Middle Temple Murder is an early example of the golden age detective story (it was published in 1919). Joseph Smit...
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