Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Friday, February 28, 2014

The Egyptian Cross Mystery

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Ellery Queen’s 1932 novel The Egyptian Cross Mystery is something of an oddity as far as golden age detective stories go, by virtue of i...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Charles Beaumont's Yonder

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Insofar as he is remembered at all Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) is remembered mostly as a writer for film and television. He wrote many e...
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Thursday, February 20, 2014

The “J for Jennie” Murders

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T. Arthur Plummer (1883-1961) was an English writer of detective stories who is now about as thoroughly forgotten as it is possibl...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Herbert Asbury’s The Devil of Pei Ling

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Published in 1927 and with a title like The Devil of Pei Ling you might expect this novel to be a Fu Manchu imitation. That is perhaps pa...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

F. Marion Crawford’s The Witch of Prague

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F. Marion Crawford’s The Witch of Prague , published in 1891, is more a strange occult love story mixed with reflections on philosophy a...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Great Tales: Conan Doyle

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The Sherlock Homes stories weren’t the only mysteries written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Some of his other short fiction in this genre ...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Len Deighton’s Horse Under Water

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Horse Under Water , published in 1963, was Len Deighton’s second novel and also the second of the four novels that are usually thought of ...
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